Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:08:04 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marcia Nelson Subject: Catbirds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In an October 6 memo, Fred Pierce asks, about Catbirds, "is there any in-depth writing on them?" So far I have seen no reply, but the question has raised my interest in the question of "in-depth" writing about birds. I have the good fortune to own the 26-volume series Life Histories of North American Birds, which is described in Ehrlich's Birder's Handbook on page 637, starting : "The basic foundation on which this, and all other compilations of the biology of North American birds rests, is the 26-volume series - - -" Since this series was written from 1919 to 1968, there are no recent statistics - much of the material is in the form of narrative essays. The volume which gives information about the catbird contains 30 pages of reports on this one species alone, and is enormously informative and fun - (I, too, love catbirds). I do not know what libraries may have this work or how many birders - - perhaps someone can suggest a source. marcia nelson accokeek, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================