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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3 species in this part of Handbook of Birds.

Illustrations

The colored frontispiece is by Mr. Ernest E. Thompson, whom I have to thank for assistance in preparing the color chart and Key to…

Illinois and Florida

The male has the under parts deep cinnamon; the female closely resembles the same sex of our Anas discors. 142. Spatula clypeata (Linn.)…

Illinois

(See Ridgway, Birds Ills., p. 71.) Omitted in error from previous editions. INDEX.

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