678 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1868-1§69 []]2 



18C8. Kinney, D. F. Report [to the Illinois State Ho ticultural Society] 

 on [6 epp. of fruit-eating] Birds. <[ Tranit. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 

 for 18G5-66, vi, 1868, p. 371. 



1668. MiNiER, G. W. Report of Special Committee [ to the Illinois Horticul- 

 tural Society] on Birds [injurious or beneficial to Horticulture]. 

 <^ Trans. Illinois State Agiic. Soc. for 1865-66, vi, 1868, pp. 396-406. 



Consisting mainly of letters addresst^d to him by various persons, and minutes 

 of a discussion in meeting. 



1868. Samuels, E. A. Among the Birds: | A series of sketches for | young 

 folks, I illustrating the | Domestic Life of Our Feathered Friends. | 

 By I Edward A. Samuels, | author of "Ornithology and Oology of 

 New England," | "Mammalogy of New England," etc. | Boston: | 

 Nichols and Noyes. | 1868. 1 vol. 16mo. pp. viii, 223, pll. iv, 

 woodcc. 



An agreeable little book, well adapted to interest the young folks in birds. 



1868. Samuels, E. A. The Breeding Habits of [three species of] Birds. 

 Am. Nat., ii, 1866, pp. 47, 48. 

 Eeply to A. Fowler's strictures, op. cit, i, 1867, 496. 



1868. Samuels, E. [A.] Our Neighbors the Birds. <[ Harper's Neiv Monthly 



Mag., xxxvii, Oct., 1868, pp. 661-666. 

 Biographical notes of some New England birds. 

 1868. Samuels, E. A. Value of Birds on the Farm. <^ Bep. U. S. Agric. Dept. 



for 1867, 1868, pp. 201-208. 



1868. Sears, J. H. Return of the Birds. < Am. Nat., ii, 1868, p. 166. 

 Dates of arrival of 21 spp. at Danvers, Mass., spring of 1868. 



1868. Streckek, H. Albinism in Birds [Dolichonyx oryzivorus, Turdus 

 migratorius]. <[ Am. Nat., ii, 1868, pp. 491, 492. 



1868. Wood, W. A Review of some of the Articles published in this Jour- 



nal respecting the Habits and Nesting of our [North American] 

 Birds, with Additional Facts. <^ Am. Nat., ii, 1868, pp. 377-380. 

 Refers chiefly to articles by Endicott, Fowler, and Samuels. 



1869. A[llen], J. A. W. L. T., Minneapolis, Minn. < Am. Nat., iii, 



1869, p. 504. 

 Notes on Vireosylvia phUadelphica and Em.pidonax flaviventris. 



1869. Baily, W. L. Our own Birds | a famil.ar natural history | of the | 

 Birds I of | the United States. | By William L. Baily. | — | Re- 

 vised and edited by | Edward D. Cope, | Corresponding Secretary of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences. | — | Philadelphia : | J. B. Lip- 

 pincott & Co. I 1869. 1 vol. IGmo. pp. i-x, 11-265, many cuts, in 

 text and on sep. pages. 



"The object of this book is not to treat the subject of Ornithology scientifically, 

 but simply to present in a concise and familiar manner to the youthful reader, 

 some interesting facts relating to the birds of our own country '' — (preface) — an 

 object accomplished in a very readable manner. The book is profusely illus- 

 trated with cuts, mostly from Audubon originally and from Samuels immedi- 

 ately, but many of them are original. 



1869. Baird, S. F. On Additions to the Bird-Fauna of North America, 

 made by the Scientific Corps of the Russo-American Telegraph 

 Expedition. <[ Trans. Chicago Acad., i, pt. ii, 1869, pp. 311-325, 

 pll. xxvii-xxsiv. 



