PUBLISHERS* ^OTE TO SECOND EDITION 



In issuing a second and revised edition of Wake- 

 Robin, ttie author has added a chapter on The Blue- 

 bird, and otherwise enlarged and corrected the text 

 here and there. The illustrations are kindly fur- 

 nished by Prof. Baird, and are taken from the " His- 

 tory of North American Birds," by himself, Dr. 

 Brewer, and Mr. Ridgeway, and published by Little, 

 Brown, & Co., — the most complete work on our 

 birds that has yet appeared. The hermit-thrush rep- 

 resented is the Western hermit {Turdus ustulaius), 

 and we have been obliged to substitute the black fly- 

 catcher (^Sayomis nigricans) for the pewee, and the 

 house finch {Carpodacus frontalis) for the purple 

 finch ; but the difference is hardly appreciable in an 

 uncolored engraving, '' 



November 187d 



