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ander Wilson, etc., pp. v-xi preface by Ord. xlii-xlviii biog. sketch 

 of Alex. Wilson, xlix-lvii list of the water birds of the U. S. with 

 their generic characters according to the arrangements of Latham, 

 xlix-lvii. [lix] index, Gl-133 Am. orn., pll. 73-76, 13 pp. general 

 index, 7 p. list of subscribers. 



An edition of two hundred copies of the first, and five 

 hundred copies of each of the eight succeeding volumes, 

 (b) Three hundred additional copies of initial volume with the 

 original imprint of 1808 appeared after Wilson's return from 

 his successful canvass through the Southern States in 1809, 

 and explains the long break between the publication of the 

 first and second volumes. This is not merely a reprint, for the 

 type was reset, errors corrected, and the author made the fol- 

 lowing changes in the text under the head of the Wood 

 Thrush, page 33. (Cf. Faxon's Early Editions of Wilson's 

 Ornithology, Auk XVIII, 1901, pp. 216-217.) 



ORIGINAL EDITION SECOND EDITION 



"Tho' it is believed that some "I have myself searched the 

 of our birds of passage, and woods of Carolina and Georgia, 

 among them the present species, in winter, for this bird, in vain, 

 winter in the Carolinas, yet they nor do I believe that it ever win- 

 rarely breed there ; and when ters in these states." 

 they do they are certainly vo- 

 cal." 



Referring to the Hermit Thrush on page 34, he adds to the 

 text in the second edition, that he has found this bird numer- 

 ous in the myrtle swamps of Carolina in the depth of winter. 

 All subsequent editions, with the exception of Jamison's, fol- 

 low the amended text. 



(c) The third edition of Vol. I. and the second of Vols. II.- 

 IX., appeared in 1824-1835. For reasons best known to the 

 publishers, Vols. I.-VI. retained the dates of the original edi- 

 tion, 1808-12, although 1824 appears to have been the actual 

 date of publication. Strictly speaking it is not a reprint, yet 

 Ord made little change beyond incorporating Wilson's index 

 corrections of nomenclature, together with a few of his own, 

 in the body of the text. This edition may be known from the 

 original by the following changes : 



