Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. A more natural disposition of the subject, than the classification I have now adopted, would have been per haps more gratifying to the learned, but less useful in practice, and more perplexing to the general reader....