, r Bulletin 



Birds of Princeton. \ Princeton 



•^ L Bird Club 



of the water birds would have been recorded, the fifty 

 species included having all been observed near the 

 small ponds and streams in the neighborhood. 



As the different species have been technically de- 

 scribed by Mr. Robert Ridgway in his able book^ on 

 North American Birds, all such descriptions have been 

 omitted ; neither has any attempt been made to gener- 

 alize in regard to breeding habits or geographical dis- 

 tribution, the reader being referred for the former to 

 any of the excellent works on the subject, — Major 

 Bendire's^ is among the best; while for distribution, 

 Chapman's' Hand-Book is sufficient authority. The 

 author has, however, endeavored to make this list as 

 complete as possible, but no species have been included 

 (even some whose occurrence is probable) which have 

 not been actually observed in the vicinity. The numbers 

 in parentheses coincide with those of the check-list of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union. 



Princeton and vicinity seem to have been partic- 

 ularly adapted by nature for bird study : the very 

 topography- of the country, with its many brooks and 

 meadows, woods, ponds and swamps, combined with 

 (except in the case of hawks and game birds) a notice- 

 able lack of indiscriminate shooting, have made this 

 section particularly adapted for the sustenance of a 

 great number of different species as well as an exces- 

 sive abundance of individuals of the same species. The 

 town is situated in about the center of Mercer County, 

 New Jersey, ten miles from the city of Trenton and 



' A Manual of North American Birds. By Robert Ridgway. 

 * Life Histories of North American Birds, with Special Reference to their 

 Breeding Habits and Eggs. By Charles Bendire. 



' Handbook of Birds of Eastern Nortn America. By Frank M. Chapman. 



