Complete Field Guide to American Wildlife: Covering All Species of Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Food and Game Fishes, Seashells, and the Principal Marine Invertebrates Occurring Annually in North America East of the Rockies and North of the 37th Parallel, and Including 877 Species Found Also in the Far West and Deep SouthHarper and Row, 1959 - 683 pages Covering all species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, food and game fishes, seashells, and the principal marine invertebrates occurring annually in North America east of the Rockies and north of the 37th parallel, and including 877 species found also in the Far West and Deep South. |
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adult anal fins Arctic Atlantic band belly bill bird blotches blue breast breeding brown brownish buff buffy Cape Cod carapace caudal peduncle color common conifer costal grooves crustaceans dark darker Description dorsal fin edges Eggs family goes back feet female fish flight Food frogs gill grass gray grayish greenish grooves GULL Habitat Habits HAWK head and body Immature insects lakes lateral line legs length lizards male mammals marshes migration mollusks mouth neck Nest North Note Nova Scotia numbers pale paler pectoral fins pectorals periostracum plankton plastron prairies Range red-brown reddish rounded rump SALAMANDER SANDPIPER scales shallow water shell short sides similar slender SNAKE snout sometimes song SPARROW species spines spots spring streaked stripe summer swamps tail teeth throat trees turtles underparts usually VIREO Voice WARBLER white wing whitish wing bars winter woods yellow yellowish young