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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Red Crossbill

Ad. 8. - Tips of the mandibles crossed; body dull red, brighter on the rump, browner on the back; wings and tail fuscous. Ad. 2. Dull olive-green, yellower on the rump, indistinctly mottled with blackish on the head and back, mixed with whitish on the under parts. Im. .-Similar to the, or mixed red and green. L., 6·19; W., 3·40; T., 2-13; B., 66.

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