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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9 species in this part of Handbook of Birds.

The Keys

It is of the utmost importance to thoroughly understand the use of the keys. At first sight they will, no doubt, appear confusing, but in…

The Color Chart

It must not be supposed for a moment that the colors on the Plate II. represent the colors of all the birds of eastern

Tern

Ad. in summer. -Top of the head and nape black; back and wings pale pearl-gray; outer web of outer primaries silvery; tip and shaft part of…

Turkey

(See Fig. 13.) Ad. & in summer. - General plumage glossy black with greenish reflections; back of the head and neck with scattered grayish…

Tailed Marlin

Ad. - Upper parts black, the head and neck streaked and the back spotted or barred with ochraceous-buff; primaries black or fuscous; upper…

Tridge

To be distinguished from the preceding by the prevailing color of the upper parts, which are gray instead of rufous, and the more…

Thrush (Fig Ad Center of the crown)

(Fig. 104.) Ad. - Center of the crown pale rufous or ochraceousbuff, bordered on either side by black lines; rest of the upper parts…

Thrush (See Fig a Ad Upper parts wings)

(See Fig. 55, a.) Ad. - Upper parts, wings, and tail rufous; wingcoverts tipped with whitish; under parts white, heavily streaked with…

Third Group (With blue in the plumage)

With blue in the plumage. I. Length 11.50; a conspicuous crest; upper parts dull blue; under parts whitish; a black patch on the breast…

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