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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Descriptions of Plumage

The descriptions, with quoted exceptions, are from specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, and my thanks are due the authorities of that institution for permission to use its valuable collections. I have tried to make them as concise and simple and, at the same time, as detailed as seemed necessary for the purpose of identification.

MEASUREMENTS-RANGE.

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