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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Swallow (Ad Forehead whitish crown)

Ad.-Forehead whitish, crown steel-blue, throat and sides of the head chestnut; a brownish gray ring around the neck; breast brownish gray, tinged with rufous and with a steel-blue patch in its center; belly white; back steel-blue, lightly streaked with white; shorter upper tailcoverts pale rufous; tail fuscous, the feathers of nearly equal length. Im.- Similar, but upper parts duller; throat black, sometimes mottled with white. L., 6.01; W., 434; T., 2.01; B. from N., 20.

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