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to Lieutenant Wirt Robinson, 4th U. S. Artillery. To Professor 

 J. A. Allen and Mr. Frank M. Chapmanbf the American Museum 

 of Natural History, N. Y., my thanks are due for their kindness 

 in allowing me free access to the library and ornithological col- 

 lections of that Institution. This little work is also associated in 

 my mind with unfailing memories of one who was my loved 

 companion in many of my field excursions. 



The list is of course deficient in many respects, but will serve to 

 furnish a general knowledge of the characteristics of the Virginian 

 avifauna ; much use it will be observed has been made of the 

 writings of the distinguished naturalists at Washington, who have 

 so thoroughly studied the ornithology of the District of Columbia 



and the adjacent parts of Virginia. 



W. C. R. 



