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Title: The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations;
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Minot, Henry Davis, 1859-1890
Subjects: Birds -- New England
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nest and eggs; c, a description of theirhabits, and c/, of their notes. In the first part, variousminute details are freely omitted, which it has been thoughtunnecessary to introduce. In spelling the English names ofbirds, the following system has been here adopted. Specificnames are begun with cai3ital letters to distinguish them fromsimilar names of groups (e. g.^ the Crow Blackbirds) ; whenthey are composed partly of a family-name, such as thrush,*that name is never compounded with another (e. ^., WoodThrush) ; when they are compounds of bird, that word isunited by a hyphen to a noun immediately preceding, but notto an adjective, except in cases to the contrary established bylong usage (e. g.^ Cat-bird, Blue Bird, but Swamp Black-bird). * Finally, that this book may prove useful to students, inter-esting to lovers of nature, and acceptable to the public, is thehope and wish of its 1876. Author. * These rules have not been strictly followed in the present edition. — W. B. Plate 1.
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1. Booted tarsus of a Robin. 2. Bill of a Robin. 3. Scutellate tarsus of the BrownThrush. 4. Bill of the Brown Thrush. 5. Bill of a Nuthatch. 6. Bill of a Creeper. 7, 8, 9,Bills of Warblers : 7, genus Hdminthopaga; 8, Deiidrceca ; 9, Myiodiodes. 10. Wing-featherof the Cedar-bird, with horny appendage. 11. Head of a Cedar-bird, with crest raised.12. Bill of the Goldfinch. 13. Bill of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 14. Bill of the Sharp-tailed Finch. 15. Tail-feathers of the same bird. 16. Bill of a Crossbill. 17. Hind-toeand claw of the Snow Bunting. 18. Bill of the Red-winged Blackbird. 19. Bill ofthe Canada Jay. 20. Bill of the Great Crested Flycatcher ; 21, as seen from above.22. Mucronate tail-feathers of the Chimney Swift. 23. Head of the ChimneySwift. 24. Syndactyle foot of the Kingfisher. 25. Bill of the Downy Woodpecker.26. Raptorial bill, genus Accipiter. 27. Tip of bill, genus Falco. 28. Bill of a Pigeon.29. Tarsus of a Pigeon. LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS OFNEW ENGLAND. INTRODUCTI

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