PREFACE 



due to later reports and local observations. 

 Other works that have been freely consulted 

 are Bendire's Life Histories of North American 

 Birds; Bailey's Handbook of Birds of the 

 Western United States; Chapman's The 

 Warblers of North America ; Finley's American 

 Birds; and Dawson's Birds of Washington. 



I wish here to express my thanks to ^Villiam 

 L. Finley and Stanley G. Jew^ett for their 

 helpful and kindly criticism of the text. 



Birds of the Pacific Coast is dedicated to 

 the amateur bird students of the West, es- 

 pecially to the teachers and students in our 

 public schools, w^ho in ever increasing 

 numbers are asking *' What bird is that?" 



WiLLARD AyRES ElIOT. 



Portland, Oregon, 

 May. 1922. 



