An encyclopedic collection of information about the life histories of 98 different jays, magpies, rooks, ravens, chickadees, bushtits, nutcrackers, titmice, and verdins.
Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866 – 1954) was an American ornithologist. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work, Life Histories of North American Birds, published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously, which received the John Burroughs Medal in 1940.