A Catalogue of the Birds of Prince Edward Island. — 

 By John MacSwain, Charlottetown, P. E. I. 



(Read 13th Nove.nber, 1905; revised to 1907.) 



This catalogue of the birds of Prince Edward Island has 

 been compiled cliiefly from field notes, beginning in 1895 and 

 continued to the present time. It contains the names of two 

 hundred and three birds seen by the writer during this period of 

 thirteen years ; and a supplementary list of thirteen additional 

 birds stated to occur in Prince Edward Island in the " Catalogue 

 of Canadian Birds" by Prof. Macoun. There is a similar list of 

 four species from " Birds of Prince Edward Island," by the late 

 Mr. Francis Bain. 



There are few works which make special reference to the 

 birds of the Island. The most important is the interestingly 

 written book of Mr. Bain just mentioned, which describes one 

 hundred and fifty-two birds. It was published in 1891. 

 Besides this, Mr. Bain, in his " Natural History of Prince 

 Edward Island," devoted a section to the birds found here, and 

 he wrote two or more magazine articles on the same sub- 

 ject. " Progress and Prospects of Prince Edward Island," 1861, 

 by C. Birch Bagster, contains a list of forty-six birds. " A 

 Manual of the Geography and Natural and Civil History of 

 Prince Edward Island," 1861, by Rev. D. Sutherland, has a 

 chapter on birds. These, with some articles which have ap- 

 peared in the Island newspapers and " The Prince Edward 

 Island Magazine," make up the ornithological literature of 

 Prince Edward Island. Some tables on migration are appended 

 to the catalogue. 



The nomenclature is that of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union " Check-List," and the numbers in parentheses refer to 

 that work. 



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