Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Everyday Birds: Elementary Studies
The largest bird in the United States is the California vulture, or condor, which measures from tip to tip of its wings nine feet and a half. At the other end of the scale are the humming birds, one kind Of which, at least, has wings that are less than an inch and a half in length. Next to these insect-like midgets come the birds which have been well named in Latin Regulus, and in English kinglets, - that is to say, little kings. The fitness of the title comes first from their tiny size, the chickadee is almost a giant in comparison, - and next from the fact that they wear patches of bright color (crowns) on their heads. Two species of kinglets are found at one season or another in nearly all parts of the United States, and are known respectively as the golden crown or goldcrest and the ruby-crown. 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.
