HANDBOOK 



OF 



FIELD AND GENERAL 



OENITHOLOGY 



A MANUAL OF THE STEUCTUEE AND 

 CLASSIFICATION OF BIEDS 



WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE 



COLLECTING AND PRESEEVING SPECIMENS 



BY 



PEOFESSOE ELLIOTT COUES, MA., M.D., etc, 



pui 



VICE-PRESIDENT AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION ; FOREIGN MEMBER BRITISH 

 ornithologists' union; corresponding member zoological SOCIETY OF LONDON, ETC. 



ILLUSTRATED 



iLonUon 



MACMILLAN AND CO. 

 1890 



All rights reserved 



