Excerpt from Names and Portraits of Birds Which Interest Gunners: With Descriptions in Language Understanded of the PeopleFollowing 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 PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.