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Excerpt from Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food-Habits, Based on Over Four Thousand Stomach Examinations
All quotations, however, have been carefully credited to the proper authorities. The present report is a brief summary of field observa tions made by the writer, during the past ten or twelve years, in the State of Pennsylvania, with numerous notes from naturalists and collee tors, in nearly every county in the commonwealth. In order that the descriptions of birds on the succeeding pages may be clearly understood, the figures on Plate 1, with the following ex planations are given. 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.