Excerpt from Birds of AmericaGeneral Description. Length, 8i/4 inches. Males, yellowish and black; female, gray and black. Bill, heavy; legs, short; tail, Short and slightly emarginate; wings, nearly twice the length of tail and pointed.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.