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Life Histories of
North American Wood Warblers

by

Arthur Cleveland Bent

in two parts

Part 1

Dover Publications, Inc.
New York

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Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Limited, 10 Orange Street, London W. C. 2.

This Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1953 by the United States Government Printing Office, as Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 203.

Standard Book Number: 486-21153-3

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