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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Marsh Hen (Ad A glossy black streak)

Ad. - A glossy black streak on either side of the upper neck; top of the head and back of the neck bluish slate, more or less washed with buffy; back brown, bordered and irregularly mottled with buffy, and buffy vchraceous, wing-coverts similarly marked, but the ground color grayer; under parts creamy buff, the feathers all widely streaked with buffy brown, which is finely speckled with buffy aud narrowly margined by brownish gray. Im. Similar, but the buffy everywhere deeper and more ochraceous. L., 28.00; W., 10.50; Tar., 3.50; B., 3.00.

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