Excerpt from A Guide to the Birds of New England and Eastern: Containing a Key for Each Season and Short Descriptions of Over Two Hundred and Fifty Species With Particular Reference to Their Appearance in the Field If this book proves helpful to others it will pay, vica riously at least, a little of the great debt which I owe to Mr. Walter Faxon, whose instruction and example have been an invaluable g'uide and stimulus to me in the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.