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. 8. - Top of the head black, a greenish white line on the crown; rest of the head, throat, neck, upper breast, back, scapulars, and lesser wingcoverts white, tinged with greenish on the sides and back of the head, and with vinaceous on the breast; middle of the rump, upper and under tailcoverts, lower breast, and belly black. Ad. .-Head, throat, and neck buffy ochraceous, darker above and streaked with black; back black, the feathers all widely margined and sometimes partly barred with buffy ochraceous; breast buffy ochraceous, barred with black; belly grayish brown or olivebrown, indistinctly margined or barred with buffy. Im.-Similar, but distinctly marked with buffy. L., 23.00; W., 11.00; Tar., 1.80; B., 2.10.

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