This bulletin deals with the life histories, habits and descriptions of marsh birds such as flamingos, spoonbills, bitterns, ibises, herons, cranes, rails, gall

Includes material on phalaropes, snipes, woodcocks, sandpipers, godwits, willets, oyster catchers, tattlers, plovers, curlews, and others.

This is the fourteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds, with previous numbers issued