Fifth edition (entirely revised). Two volumes in burgundy cloth. Shelf-wear, worn edges and spines. Previous owner’s bookplate on ffep of both volumes. Color frontispieces in both volumes by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. B&W illustrations throughout. A concise account of every species of living and fossil bird known at the time from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California. The next to the last and fullest edition of Coues monumental work.