LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AND TERNS

New York: Dover Publications, 1963. Paperback Reprint . Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 1/2" Tall. This edition, "first published in 1963, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1921 by the United States Government Printing Office, as Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 111. Plates 78 through 93, which were reproduced in color in the 1921, are reproduced in black and white in this Dover edition." [Publisher's Note] The families considered here are Stercoridae (5 species), Laridae (44 species), and Rynchopidae (1 species). 337 pages, with References to Bibliography, Explanation of Plates, and Index; plus x [10] pages prefatory matter; plus 93 photographic plates of birds, habitats, and eggs. Covers have small partial creases, otherwise clean and sound; text is clean and strong.