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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Piper

Ad.-Upper parts pale grayish brown, the feathers with olive centers; primaries fuscous, the inner half of their inner webs speckled with black; longer inner wing-coverts conspicuously marked and tipped with black, then white; central tail-feathers fuscous, outer ones becoming buffy, irregularly marked and tipped with black and buffy; under parts pale ochraceous-buff, tipped with whitish, and with generally concealed black markings. Im.- Similar, but the upper parts and breast paler. L., 8.50; W., 5.25; B., 80.

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