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.

Long Island

regular W. V. Nest, on the ground, among rocks or herbage. Eggs, six to ten, light olivegray to grayish green, 3.12 × 1.92 (Davie). While…

Leadback

Ad. in summer.-Upper parts broadly margined with rufous, the centers of the feathers black, wings brownish gray; breast whitish, lightly…

Legs

Ad. in summer. Upper parts generally brownish gray, the head and neck streaked with black and white, the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts…

Louisiana

Its plumage is black with bluish reflections, the tail is rounded, the bill high and thin, the depth at the nostril equaling or exceeding…

Lark

Prevailing color of the upper parts grayish brown, crown with a central buffy stripe; back black, feathers widely margined with grayish…

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A. Birds, The Auk, xiv, 1897, p. 125.) 152. Change Glaucionetta islandica (Gmel.) to Clangula islandica Gmel., for the reason given under…

Louisiana Seaside Finch

The dark Seaside Finch of the west Gulf coast (Louisiana, southward in winter to Corpus Christi, Texas) has been separated by Mr. Ridgway…

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