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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7 species in this part of Handbook of Birds.

Gulf of St

Lawrence, writes: "The first report of our guns brought dozens tumbling from their nests. Their manner of descending from the higher…

George H (Mackay in one of his careful)

Mackay, in one of his careful and detailed studies of our Shore Birds, describes their notes as a soft wah-quoit and a little honk. The…

Geese

When on the ground they usually run very fast for four or five yards, then stop, elevate the head, and look around. They strike at the…

Greenback

Ad. in summer. - Upper parts black, spotted and margined with golden yellow; tail brownish gray, indistinctly barred with whitish; sides of…

George H (Mackay's account of the habits)

Mackay's account of the habits of this species in The Auk, viii, 1891, pp. 17-24.) The EUROPEAN GOLDEN PLOVER (271. Charadrius apricarius)…

Golden Eagle

Ad. - Back of the head and nape pale, buffy ochraceous; basal two thirds of the tail white; tarsus white, entirely feathered; rest of the…

Grackle

The gray female is unlike the streaked female Redwing. J. DWIGHT, JR. BREWER'S BLACKBIRD (510. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus) inhabits…

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