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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Range (Northern part of the northern)

Northern part of the northern hemisphere; in America nests in Greenland and quite abundantly "along the Anderson, in the 'Barrens,' and also on the arctic coast" (Macfarlane); migrates southward along the coasts, and rarely through the Great Lakes, to the Gulf of Mexico and West Indies.

Nest, a slight depression in the ground, sometimes scantily lined with grasses. Eggs, two to three, similar in color to those of the preceding, 2.10 x 1.50.

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