Excerpt from The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various, Species Known to Occur or to Have Occurred, in the State, an Account of Their Distribution and Migration, Showing Their Relative Abundance in the Various Counties of the State as Well as Other Regions, and Contr The plan of the work is arranged along the lines hereafter described. The American Ornithologists' Union check-list and the Supplements thereto have been the base used for the numbers and scientific nomenclature. In addition to the com mon name of each species, as given in the A. O. U. List, an effort has been made to give as many as possible, of the local names by which each may be known. Analytical keys to the various orders and species have been given, and under each species the various plumages are described in a few words and measurements given. The descriptions and keys are in no sense to be understood as the result of original study, but are compiled from the various descriptions given in Ridgway's Manual of North American Birds, Ridgway's Birds of North and Middle America, Chapman's Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, Dwight's Sequence of the Plumages and Moults of the Passerine Birds of New York and other standard works, eflort being made to change the language of descriptions taken from these works and retain the meaning in fewer words. Following the description of plumage under each species is given a brief summary of the geographical distribution. 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.