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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16 species in this part of Handbook of Birds.

Chapter III

COLLECTING BIRDS, THEIR NESTS, AND EGGS Collecting Birds Making Birdskins. Sexing Birds • Cataloguing and Labeling Care of a Collection •…

Cormorant

Ad. in breeding plumage.-Head, neck, rump, and under parts glossy black; upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts light grayish brown, each…

Colonel N (S Goss writes that as a rule)

S. Goss writes that, as a rule, Widgeons are "not shy, and their note, a sort of whew, whew, whew, uttered while feeding and swimming…

Colonel N (S Goss in his admirable Birds)

S. Goss, in his admirable Birds of Kansas, writes that he has observed this species along the edges of old channels of rivers or muddy…

Curlew

Ad. - Upper parts grayish brown, the sides of the feathers with whitish spots; rump and tail barred with buffy and blackish; inner web of…

Calico-Back

Ad. in summer. - Upper parts, including wings, strikingly variegated with rufous, black, and white; tail white at the base, a black band…

Cruz

It is this race, with white-tipped upper tail-coverts, which was first introduced into Europe, where it had become established as early had…

Chicken Hawk (Ad Upper parts dark grayish)

Ad. - Upper parts dark grayish brown or fuscous-brown, more or less edged with rufous, ochraceous-buff, and whitish; four outer primaries…

Chicken Hawk (Ad Upper parts dark grayish) (II)

Ad. - Upper parts dark grayish fuscous-brown, more or less edged with rufous, ochraceous - buff, and whitish; four outer primaries…

Can Rough-Legged Hawk

Ad., light phase. - Upper parts fuscous-brown, margined with whitish and ochraceous-buff; inner vanes of the primaries white at the base…

Cuckoo

Ad.- Upper parts grayish brown with a slight green gloss; wings FIG. 74. Tail-feathers of Black-billed Cuckoo. and tail the same, the…

Crested Flycatcher

Ad. - Upper parts grayish brown, washed with olivegreen; outer vane of primaries margined with pale rufous; inner vane of all but the…

Catcher

Ad.-Upper parts rather dark olive-green; wings and tail fuscous; greater and lesser wing-coverts tipped with white or yellowish white…

Chippy

Ad.-No black on the forehead; an indistinct black spot on the center of the breast; top of the head rufous-brown, sometimes edged with…

Cherry-Bird

(See Fig. 50.) Ad.-Forehead, chin, and a line through the eye velvety black; a conspicuous crest; upper parts rich grayish brown; upper…

Cardinal

The Cardinal of Florida has been described, under the above name, by Mr. Ridgway, as "smaller and darker colored than C. cardinalis; adult…

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