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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Headed Blackbird

Ad. 8. -Head, neck, throat, and breast orange-yellow; region before the eye and chin black; outer wing-coverts white, rest of the plumage black. Ad. q. - Forehead, line over the eye, sides of the head, throat, and upper breast pale, dirty yellow, more or less mixed with white; lower breast generally more or less marked with white; rest of the plumage grayish brown. L., 10.00; W., 5.50; T., 4.05; B., 85.

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