A D YE RT I SEME NT, 



The Review of American Birds, of which the present work, by 

 Prof Baird, constitutes the first .part, is intended to serve as a 

 descriptive catalogue, with critical commentaries, of the species of 

 American Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution; 

 giving, at the same time, a list of the specimens, their localities, 

 and donors. As indicated by the date at the beginning of each 

 signature, it was published, sheet by sheet, between June, 1864, 

 and June, 1866, and has been extensively in use by ornithologists, 

 although not regularly distributed to Libraries and Societies. It 

 is now reissued for that purpose, and, for the first time, with the 

 list of species described, and with an alphabetical index. 



JOSEPH HENRY, 



Secretary S. I. 



Washington, D. C, 

 NOVEMBEK 21, ]872. 



Philadelphia: 

 collins, prints b. 



