Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Bird (Ad Head neck throat and upper)

Ad. 8.-Head, neck, throat, and upper breast all around varying from brilliant metallic purple to bluish green or steel-blue; back metallic sealbronze, the feathers without iridescent bars; wings and tail metallic purplish or bluish black; lower breast and belly similar to the back but duller. Ad. 2.-Much duller, the back and belly brownish, sometimes without metallic reflections and never with iridescent bars. W., 5.62; T., 5.04; B., 1·21.

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