Excerpt from The Birds of Amherst and Vicinity: Including Nearly the Whole of Hampshire County, Massachusetts The author of this work, an associate member of the Ameri can Ornithologists' Union, has taken great pains to incorporate into this paper all desirable information concerning the birds of this region, including a brief, technical description of each species, the times of migrating, nesting, and food habits, whether beneficial or injurious, and a very useful key for the determination of the species. It is believed that very few, if any, birds, which' occur in Hampshire County, have been omitted. 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.