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entire life history of the scarlet ibis, and furnished much of the 

 material for that of the jabiru; all this involved a large amount of 

 research in publications which are unknown to most of us. Credit 

 should hare been given, in the previous volume, to W. E. Clyde Todd 

 for permission to use certain notes made by O. J. Murie in the 

 Hudson Bay region. 



The manuscript for this volume was completed in December, 1925. 

 Contributions received since will be acknowledged later. Only in- 

 formation of great importance could be added. Contributions 

 for the shore-bird volume should be sent, at once, to — 



The Author 



