A LIST OF THE 



BIRDS OBSERVED IN LITCHFIELD 

 COUNTY, CONNECTICUT 



Aside from any scientific or local interest, this list has a logical 

 place at the end of this book. It is given as an illustration of one 

 of the several possible applications of the fascinating sport of 

 bird study worked out to a definite result. To undertake an 

 exact faunal bird-census of any definite locality will lend interest 

 and excitement to every tramp afield, and to every glimpse of an 

 unusual bird, which, when identified, may add another name to 

 the growing list. In the present case, as the roll swelled, my 

 interest increased, and when I neared the two-hundred-mark the 

 excitement was really delightful. 



The following list is the result of my now nearly ten years' 

 residence and field-work in the County, combined with some 

 observations of a few others. The County seems to be almost a 

 virgin field omithologically, for no list and but few scattering 

 notes from the region have ever before been published. The 

 splendid field-work of Mr. E. Seymour Woodruff, in the town of 

 Litchfield, especially as to the water-birds occurring in Bantam 

 Lake, has been of immense value in preparing this list, and I 

 wish to thank him for his cooperation, as well as Dr. L. B. Bishop, 

 for examining my manuscript and giving me access to his vast 

 store of material on Connecticut birds, which will be published 

 later, and Messrs. Harrison Sanford, William Hanson, C. H. 

 Pease, F. F. Stevens, J. S. Dutcher, E. H. Austin, T. S. Skilton 

 and W. A. Miles, for interesting notes, as well as numerous other 

 valued correspondents. 



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