Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey: Orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes (Part 2)
Entry/Object ID
JJA.1939.58
Description
This is a volume with grayish paper covers that bear the work's title and publication information. This is Bulletin 170 from the United States National Museum, which is titled, Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey (Part 2): Orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes. This work is composed by Arthur Cleveland Bent from Taunton, Massachusetts. The cover also bears the seal of the Smithsonian Institution, which reads, "For the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Among Men." The image of a lit torch is stamped on the back cover. This volume was published in 1938. The text includes information on the habits and distribution of such birds as falcons and owls. Several pages of black and white photographs are included in the back of the volume.
