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 (Breeds from the Northern) (II)

Breeds from the Northern States northward; in winter wanders irregularly southward, sometimes reaching Illinois and Virginia. Washington, casual. Sing Sing, rare T. V., Oct. 29 to Dec. 6. Cambridge, irregular W. V.

Nest, of twigs and strips of birch bark, covered exteriorly with moss (Usnea), and lined with soft moss and hair, on the fork of an evergreen in deep forests. Eggs, three (?), pale blue, spotted and streaked near larger end with reddish brown and lilac, 80 x 55 (Chamberlain). Colonel Goss writes that in general habits these birds resemble the

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