FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON MINNESOTA BIRDS; 



THEIR ECONOMIC RELATIONS TO 



THE AGRICULTURIST.* 



F. L. WASHHURN. 



The increasing- interest in our birds prompts the Entomologist to 

 add to the information ])ubHshed with colored plates in Circular 32, 

 from this office. l)y issuing the jn-esent leaflet. It is manifestly out 

 of the question to discuss all of our bird residents and visitors, or even 

 to list and figure them in a circular. It has been our aim, therefore, 

 rather, to describe, briefly, different types representing certain grou])s 

 common in Minnesota. There has been a great demand for Circular 

 32 on the part of schools and it is hoped that these brief accounts of 

 Minnesota bird life may also be of service. 



We are particularly fortunate, through the kindness of the artist, 

 Louis Agassiz Fuertes, of Mabel Osgood Wright, the living- author, 

 and the Macmillan Compan\-. publishers of "Citizen IHrd," to be able 

 to present here a few of the excellent and accurate illustrations with 

 which that )uiblication is adorned. It is with the greatest pleasure 

 that we acknowledge our ai^preciation of the courtesy extended l)y the 

 above. 



'Also printed as Circular Xo. 35. 



