EXPLANATORY. 



TABLE OF COMPARISONS. 



INCHES. 



Pygmy size Length up to 5.00 



Warbler size S-OO" 6.00 



Sparrow size 6.00- 7.50 



Chewink size 7-50- 9-00 



Robin size 9.00-12.00 



Little Hawk size. Teal size, Tern size 12.00-16.00 



Crow size 16.00-22.00 



Gull size, Brant size 22.00-30.00 



Eagle size. Goose size 30.00-42.00 



Giant size 4^.00 and upward 



Measurements are given in inches and hundredths and in millimeters, the 

 latter enclosed in parentheses. 



KEY OF ABBREVLATKJNS. 



References under Authorities are to faunal lists, as follows: 



T Townsend. Catalog of Birds. Narrative. 1839, pp. 331-336. , „_ „ 



C&S Cooper and Sucklev. Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. XII., pt. II., i860, pp. 140-287. 



L' Lawrence Birds of Grav's Harlwr, Auk. Jan. 1892, pp. 39-47- 



L^ Lawrence Further Notes on Birds of Gray's Harbor, Auk, Oct. 1892, pp. 352-357. 



Rh Rhoads, Birds Observed in B. C. and Wash., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila 1893, 



pp. 21-65. (Onlv records referring explicitly to Washuigton are noted.) 

 Di Dawson, Birds of Okanogan County, Auk, Apr. 1897, pp. 168-182. 



Sr Snvder, Notes on a Few Species, Auk, July 1900, pp. 242-245. 



Kb Kohbe Birds of Cape Disappointment. Auk, Oct. 1900, pp. 349-358- 



Ra Rathbun, Land Birds of Seattle, Auk. Apr. 1902, pp. 131-141- 



D^ Dawson Birds of Yakima Countv, Wilson Bulletni, June 1902, pp. 59-67- 



Ssi Snodgrass Land Birds from Central Wash., Auk. Apr. 1903. pp. 202-209. 



Ss^! Snodgrass', Land Birds Central and Southeastern Wash., Auk, Apr. 1904, pp. 223- 



233. 

 Kk Keck, Birds of Olvmpia, Wilson Bulletni, June 1904, pp. 23-37- 



J Johnson. Birds of Cheney. Condor, Jan. 1906, pp. 25-28. 



B Bowles Birds of Tacoma, Auk, Apr. 1906. pp. 138-148- 



E' Edson, Birds of Belluigham Bay Region, Auk, Oct. 1908. pp. 425-439- 



For fuller account of these lists see Bibliography in Vol. II. 



References under Specimens are to collections, as follows ; 



U ofW University of Washington Collection; (U. of W.) indicates lack of locality data. 



P.' Pullman '(State College) Collection. P'. indicates local specimen. 



Prov Collection Provincial Museum, Victoria, B. C. , 



B. ' Collection C. W. & J. H. Bowles. Only Washington specimens are listed. 



C. Cantwell Collection. 



BN. Collection Bellingham Normal School. 



E. Collection J. iNL Edson. 



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