vin. 



Here also Air. Ged. C. CaiUwell lias left hi> bird-skins. ])artly local ami ]iartly 

 Alaskan, on view. 



Fortunately the task nf redescrihini; tlic |)lumage of ^^'aslling■ton birds has 

 been rendered less necessary for a work of such scope as ours, thru the appearance 

 of tile Fifth Edition of Coues Key.^* cniljodying. as it does the ripened conclusions 

 of a uniquely gifted ornithological writer, and above all. 1iv the great definitive 

 work from the hand of Professor Ridgway.'' now more than half completed. 

 These final works by the masters of our craft render the careful repetition of 

 such effort supernuous. and 1 have no hesitation in admitting that we are almost 

 as much indebted to them as to local collections, altho a not inconsiderable part of 

 the author's original work upon plumage descriiition in "The ISirds of Ohio" has 

 been utilized, or re-worked, wherever ap])licable. 



In compiling the General Ranges, we wish to acknowledge indebtedness both 

 to the A. (). U. Check-List (2nd Edition) and to the summaries of Ridgway and 

 Cones in the works already mentioned. In the Range in Washington, we have 

 tried to take account of all published records, but have been obliged in most 

 instances to rely upon personal experience, and to express judgments which must 

 vary in accuracy with each individual case. 



The final work upon migrations in Washington is still to be done. Our own 

 task has called us hither and yonder each season to such an extent that consecutive 

 work in any one locality has been impossible, and there appears not to be any one 

 in the State who has seriously set himself to record the movements of the birds 

 in chronological order. Success in this line depends upon cooperative work on 

 the part of many widely distributed observers, carried out thru a considerable 

 term of years. It is one of the aims of these volumes to stimulate such endeavor, 

 and the author invites correspondence to the end that such an undertaking may 

 be carried out systematically. 



In citing authorities, we have aimed to recall the lirst publication of each 

 species as a bird of \\'asliington, giving in italics the name originally assigned the 

 bird, if different from the one now used, together with the name of the author 

 in bold-face tvpe. In many instances early references are uncertain, chiefly by 

 reason of failure to distinguish between the two States now separated by the 

 Columbia River, but once comprehended under the name Oregon Territory. Such 

 citations are questioned or bracketed, as are all those which omit or disregard 

 scientific names. The abbreviated references are to standard faunal lists appear- 

 ing in the columns of "The Auk" and elsewhere, and these are noted more 

 carefully under the head of Bibliograph}'. among the Appendices. 



At the outset I wish to explain the peculiar relation which exists between 



a. Key to North American Birds, by Elliott Coues. A. M., M. D., Ph. D,, Fifth Eilitioti (entirely 

 revised), in Two Volumes; pp. xli. -t-1152. Boston, Dana Estes and Company, 1903. 



b. The Birds of North and Middle America, by Robert Kidgway, Curator, Division of Birds, U. S. 

 National Museum. Bulletin of the tJ. S. N. M., No. 50; Pt, 1.. Fringillidac, pp. xxxi. + 715 and PI. XX. 

 (kjoi); Pt. XL, Tiuiagridac, etc., pp. xx. -|- 834 and PI. XXII. (1902): Pt. III., Motacillidac, etc., pp. 

 xx.+Soi and PI. XIX. fiqo4); Pt. IV., Tiirdidac, etc.. pp. xxll. -H 973 and PI. XX.XIW (1907). 



