Excerpt from Names and Portraits of Birds Which Interest Gunners: With Descriptions in Language Understanded of the People Following is a list of popular and local names applied by English-speaking people to birds which particularly interest gunners: including, however, only those species which are found in the eastern half of the United States; and, again, only those birds which bear aliases to a confusing degree. 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.