Region of Lower Calif oiitia. 

 M Brewster. 



AUCTION. 



spent about nine months collecting 

 ig this period he obtained upwards of 

 eral new to science, besides a number 

 Region. Of the quality of his speci- 

 ligence which he displayed in collect- 

 to speak too highly. Indeed, it is 

 .1 size and excellence was ever before 

 ;hin so short a space of time. The 

 the series representing the resident 

 re sufficiently large to illustrate very 

 ge and seasonal, variations to which 

 failed, however, to secure many nests 

 to be regretted - — his field notes, de- 



9Q r\ ( 1 I fi ^ visited and of the habits, behavior, 



^ ^ ig birds, are, in most respects, disap- 



I have culled from his journals and 

 specimens, every fact or suggestion 

 nent record, and I have supplemented 

 ig freely on the published accounts of 

 the same region, among whom Mr. 

 and Mr. Anthony are, of course, the 

 most prominent. 



The biographical material gathered from these sources includes, I 

 trust, all the information of obvious value and pertinence which is at 

 present accessible, but it is undeniably inconsiderable in quantity and 

 colorless in character. The simple truth is that the ornithologists who 

 have thus far visited Lower California have devoted most of their atten- 

 tion to collecting and preparing specimens and but very little to making, 



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