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PREFACE. 



The first edition of the Birds of Eastern North America has been exhausted for some 

 time, but owing to circumstances, I have not been enabled to prepare a second edition, 

 containing the necessary revisions and additional matter, imtil the present time. 



Much of the original text has been preserved intact, Init considerable change has 

 been made in some of it. The main diflerence between this and the former edition, aside 

 from repaging the entire Avork, beginning with the Water Birds, is in the extensive ad- 

 ditions, not only in nimiber of species, which are considerable, but in new matter tliat 

 pertains to descriptions, lia])its, etc., of species already enumerated. These eniljody 

 mucli of the results of nu' studies among the birds of Florida, tlie IJaliamas. and other of 

 the West Indies, made during several recent expeditions, imdertakeu for this purpose. 

 During this time especial attention has been paid to Water Birds, and many uvw facts 

 concerning them have been noted. 



I have not considered it expedieiit, for several reasons, to change the nomenclatiu-e, 

 Ijut in an appendix will be found a concordance of my names and those given in the 

 Check List, last edition, of the American Ornithologist's Union. 



The additional species and much of the new matter, will l)e found, as a rule, at the 

 end of tlie orders, or in some cases at the end of families, thus although some of the new- 

 ] \- added species and sub-species are given under their proper general headings, they are 

 often misplaced systematically, but a reference to the index will at once reveal the ab- 

 sence or presence of a given species or sub-species. 



C. J. M. 



Newtonville, MLiss., May, 1889. 



