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rapliy of Ornitliology so far as America is concerned. They are pub- 

 lished in this manner in advance of the vhole work for several reasons — 

 among others, both to render immediately available certain departments 

 of the Bibliography which are practically completed, and to incite criti- 

 cism and suggestions for the bettering of the work. I am satisfied that, 

 if 1 can come anywhere near the standard I have set for myself, I shall 

 have done a very useful thing; and I beg those who are interested in 

 the accomplishment of this undertaking to inform me of any defects 

 they may perceive. In only one iiarticular would I deprecate criticisttn 

 at present — and this is respecting the arrangement of the titles; for the 

 scheme of the work cannot be fairly appreciated until the whole is pub- 

 lished, including the several contemplated Indexes. 



The portions of the Bibliography now before the public suffice for an 

 estimate of its plan and piu-pose; but I may add that nothing has yet 

 appeared of several other important departments, such as those of 

 "General and Miscellaneous'' publications, of publications in "Anatomy 

 and Physiology", of publications relating to "Birds in Domestication 

 or Captivity", etc. It is not my intention, however, to print any more 

 of the work at present, the American departments being the only ones 

 sufficiently perfected to warrant their leaving my hands. But mean 

 while I am making manuscript for the rest as rapidly and as continu- 

 ously as possible. 



NOTA bene: It l>oing absolutely necessary, in this part. of the work, to have some 

 fixed standard (no matter what one) for the grouping of species and genera into fam- 

 ilies, and for the sequence of the families, I have adopted as most convenient the 

 arrangement of Grai/s Hand-list, as far as the Passeres are concerned — the limitations 

 of the families in other orders heiug suflflciently nearly agreed upon hy ornithologists. 

 For Posucrhic families, then, the titles have been assorted strietly and exactly according to 

 the composition and sequence of those groups in the uork just menlianed. 



Hiriiiiflinifla'. 



[Here only titles additional to those gi%-on in -Birds of the Colorado Valley", pp. 378-389. .396-^01, q.v.] 



1769. Laxmaxx, E. Hirnndo daiirica, area temporali rubra. Uropygio luteo rufes- 

 cente. <^KdngL Svensk. Vetensk.-Aead. Handl., xxx. ITHO, p]). "iOO-'ii:?, pi. vii. 



1T74. White, G. Account of the House Martin, <>v Martlet. < rhilox. Trans.. Ixiv, 

 pt. i, 1774, i>p. 19f)-"201. 

 Haliits of Chelidon vrbica. 



This celebrated memoir i.s euTionsly misquoted in Cams and Enp^lmann. Bibl. Zonl., ii, 1861, 

 p. 1375, as if roferrins to the m.ininial Mustclafoina. known as the '^Marten ". (Jill and Cones 

 perpetuate the blunder in Monngrs. N. A. Itodentin. 1877. App.. p. 100.^, by transcription of 

 the title into their Jiibl. •>/ X. A. Mammals. Cones exa;sgci-ated it in his Fur-hearing Ani- 

 mals. 1877, p. 77. by making out Miistela foina to have been institjited by (Ulbert White, as 

 above! The funny niist.-ike is shown up by Alston, P. Z./:., 1879. p. 469. The title is correctly 

 cited by Coues in Birds Colorado Yalle;/. 1878. p. 396: as it is also by Giebel, Thes. Orn.. ]). 

 145. — It is hard to teach some people to verify quotations ! 



On the same pajre of Carus and Eiiirelmann. C lines hi<rher up. occurs a no less sinijular 

 mistake : John Hunters account of the ■Free Martin " (a local name for cattle with a certain 

 malformation) bein;: cited as if relating to .some .species of JU list da. Again, on p. 1345, .same 

 work, a paper on the anatomy "of a male Otter '", Lutriv maris (in the g(nitive), is allocated 

 with Enhydris, as if it were Lutrce maris, "of a Sea Otter". 



1789. Carlson, G. V. Anmiirkningar om Svalor. <^K<>iif/l. VeUnsk.-Jcad. Xi/t Ilandl , 

 X, 1789, pp. :U5-317. 



