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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Ernest E (THOMPSON Melospiza lincolni)

THOMPSON. 583. Melospiza lincolni (Aud.). LINCOLN'S SPARROW. Ad.-. Upper parts streaked with black, brownish gray, and grayish brown; tailfeathers narrow and rather pointed, the outer ones shortest; under parts white, rather finely streaked with black, a broad cream-buff band across the breast, a cream-buff stripe on either side of the throat; sides tinged with cream-buff. L., 5-75; W., 2.50; T., 2·40; B., 41.

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