This bulletin is a continuation of the work on the life histories of North American birds begun in Bulletin 107 and continued by Bulletin 113. The same general plan has been followed and the same sources of information have been utilized. This bulletin covers the Orders Turbinares and Steganopodes, Petrels, Pelicans, and their allies.

Coots, bitterns, rails, crakes, cranes, herons, egrets, many others. 180 photographs.

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