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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: Labrador Duck, American pickerel, 'Elepaio, Dickcissel, Greater Adjutant, Mute Swan, Rock Pigeon, Wood Thrush, South Georgia Pintail, White-browed Wagtail, Southern Giant Petrel, Great Frigatebird, Rodrigues Solitaire, Sooty Shearwater, Bengal Florican, Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross, Akepa, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Grey Petrel, Blue Petrel, Pauraque, Antarctic Prion, Hawaiian Rail, Pollicipes pollicipes, Antarctic Petrel, Forest Wagtail, Pacific Black Duck, Pompadour Green Pigeon, Tahitian Sandpiper, Bay Thrush, Cape Dwarf Chameleon, Wattled Crane, Gull-billed Tern, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Tomtit, Bushwren, Norfolk Island Pacific Robin, Tahitian Red-billed Rail, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Liverpool Pigeon, Jambu Fruit Dove, European chafer, Black-crested Bulbul, Pacific Reef Heron, Snowy Sheathbill, Mabuya mabouya, Snowflake moray, Linguatula serrata, Society Parakeet, Green Ibis, Yellowhead, Antarctic Tern, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Shore Plover, African Jacana, Common Woodshrike, Pacific Imperial Pigeon, Martinique's Anole, Phoenix Petrel, Polynesian Storm-petrel, Common Diving-petrel, Amegilla quadrifasciata, Mauritius Fody, Spotless Crake, Tawny Speckled Pug, Large-billed Tern, Pipipi, Rudderfish, Straw-headed Bulbul, Sander volgensis, Red-and-black Grosbeak, Mascarene Martin, Grey-green Fruit Dove, Mascarene Swiftlet. Excerpt: The Dickcissel, Spiza americana, is a small American seed-eating bird in the family Cardinalidae. It is the only member of the genus Spiza, though some sources list another supposedly extinct species (see below). In older works, it is often placed with the American sparrows in the Emberizidae; females especially resemble American sparrows in plumage. Male in nonbreeding plumageDickcissels have a large pale bill, a yellow line over the eye, brownish upperparts with black streaks on the ...
