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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Ad.-Upper parts rather dark olive-green; wings and tail fuscous; greater and lesser wing-coverts tipped with white or yellowish white; under parts sulphur-yellow, the belly pure, the throat, breast, and sides more or less washed with olive-green; upper mandible black, lower mandible whitish or flesh-color; second to fourth primaries of equal length, the first shorter than the fifth. Im. - Yellow of the under parts brighter, wing-bars more yellow, and sometimes tinged with pale ochraceous-buff. L., 5.63; W. 2.65; T., 216; B. from N., •33.

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