iv PREFACE. 
on the 21st of April, 1885, when the Report of the Committee 
was accepted and adopted, and was referred again to the Com- 
mittee for publication, the Committee to exercise such edi- 
torial revison as might seem necessary. 
Pursuant to the foregoing resolutions of the Union and 
Council, the Committee now offers to the public, in the name 
and on behalf of the Union, the result of its labors, consist- 
ing of a List of North American Birds, preceded by the Code 
of Rules adopted by the Committee for its guidance in the 
preparation of the List. 
The Committee ventures to hope that the new Code will 
find favor, not only with ornithologists, but among zodlo- 
gists generally. 
‘ ELLIOTT COUES. 
1, A ATES 
ROBERT RIDGWAY. 
WILLIAM BREWSTER. 
H. W. HENSHAW. 
