4 COUES, BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



which no authority is cited, and for the identifications of 

 specimens in the Museum, I am solely responsible. 



The reader is referred to the following authorities for 

 coiToborative or additional information upon the subject : 



Emm. — Pi'of. E. Emmons; Catalogue of the Birds of Massachusetts. 

 Hitchcock's Report. Amherst, 1835. 



Brew. — Dr. T. M. Brewer; Some additions to the Catalogue of the 

 Birds of Massachusetts, in Hitchcock's Report. Boston Journal 

 of Natural History, vol. i, p. 435. 1837. 



Peab. — Rev. W. B. O. Peabody; Report on the Birds of Massachu- 

 setts. Published agreeably to an order of the Legislature. 8vo. 

 Boston, 1839. 



TiiOMPS. — Zadock Thompson ; History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, 

 and Statistical, chap, viii, p. 56. 8vo. Burlington, 1842. 



Lixs. — Rev. J. H. Linsley; Catalogue of the Birds of Connecticut. 

 American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. xliv, p. 249. 1843. 



PuTN. — F. W. Putnam; Catalogue of the Birds of Essex Co., Mass., 

 with an Appendix containing other species of the State. Proceed- 

 ings of the Essex Institute, vol. i, p. 201. With notes by Mr. S. 

 Jillson. 1856. 



Wood. — Dr. W. Wood; Rapacious Birds of Connecticut. Hartford 

 Times, March 14 to Aug. 9, 1861. 



Veur. — Prof. A. E. Verrill; Catalogue of the Birds found at Norway, 

 Me. With a list of the Birds found in Maine not observed at Nor- 

 way. Proceedings of the Essex Institute, vol. iii, p, 136. 1862. 

 (Repaged.) 



BoARDM. — G. A. Boai'dman; Catalogue of the birds found in the 

 vicinity of Calais, Maine, and about the Islands at the mouth of the 

 Bay of Fundy. Edited by A. E. Verrill. Pi'oceedings of the Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History, vol. ix, p. 122. 1862. 



Verr. — Prof. A. E. Verrill; Additions to the Catalogue of the Birds 

 found in the vicinity of Calais, Maine, and about the Bay of Fundy. 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natm-al History, vol. ix, p. 

 233. 1863. 



Sam.-^E. A. Samuels;* Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of Massa- 

 chusetts. Boston, 1864. Appendix to Report of Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, Mass., for 1863. (Ilepaged.) 



* This author has recently published a more extensive work on the Birds of New 

 England ; but his " Catalogue " is much more complete, as far as it goes, and other- 

 wise more satisfactory, than his more pretentious volume. The latter, — entitled 

 " Ornithology and Oologj- of New England; containing full descriptions of the Birds 

 of New England, and adjoining States and provinces, arranged by a long-approved 

 classification and nomenclature; together with a complete history of their habits, 

 times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and 

 a careful and accurate account of their nests and eggs: with Illustrations of many 

 species of the Birds, and accurate Figui'es of their Eggs " — is not by any means 

 what we should expect to find it, from its title. We are constrained to regard it as 

 a work that only very imperfectly and inadequately represents, and therefore can- 

 not Ijcconie an authority upon, the subject. The descriptions are very good, and 

 are copied from Prof. Baird's work. Many of the biographies are excellent, and 

 are copied from Wilson, Audubon, Nuttall, and others. Nearly all the wood-cuts 

 are rci)roduced from Audubon, and most of them have already been used liefore, 

 in a goverimient Report. They are as much like Audubon's originals as could be 

 expected under the circumstances. The colored plates of the eggs are the best 

 things in the book ; it is much to be regretted that only thirty eggs are illustrated ; 

 also that the writer has been able to describe the nests', eggs, and breeding habits oi 



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