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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Ad. 6. - Upper parts barred with black, ashy, gray, and grayish brown; tertials and wing-coverts irregularly marked with fuscous and grayish brown; tail black, tipped with rufous; the black throat separated from the black breast by a broken circular band of black and white and a band of the same color as the back of the neck; sides mottled with black and grayish brown, the ends of the feathers with white shaft streaks; rest of the under parts black, broadly tipped with white, except on the middle of the lower breast; bare skin above the eye bright red in life. Ad. q. - Upper parts barred with black and pale rufous and tipped with ashy gray; tail black, mottled and tipped with rufous; throat and upper breast barred with pale rufous and black; sides mottled with black and pale rufous, the ends of the feathers with white shaft streaks; rest of the under parts black, broadly tipped with white and more or less washed with pale rufous. L., 15.00; W., 6.50; T., 475; B. from N., 40.

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