INTRODUCTION. 



The present paper does not aim to set forth a complete list 

 of the summer birds of Monongalia County, West Virginia ; 

 but to give brief notes on those observed by the Author at 

 various points within the county. 



The Author's original plan was to make several crips to dif- 

 ferent parts of the county for the purpose of recording notes on 

 the birds found throughout the summer months. The first of 

 these trips was made in 1895, when I investigated a small sec- 

 tion south-west of Blacksville. Two years later I made a trip 

 to Morgantown, going and returning by different routes. Here 

 my investigations had to cease and I have been unable ever 

 since to make further trips. For this reason, and to supply sev- 

 eral inquiring friends with what little records I have of this 

 virgin territory, I have decided to submit this little pamphlet. 



It is with some hesitancy that I publish the half-tone plate of 

 "the outfit" ready to start on a trip across the Mason and Dixon 

 Line to pry into the Avifauna of our neighboring state. But 

 it is in memory of the good old dog, who accompanied me on 

 these trips, that the picture is used. 



J. WARREN JACOBS. 

 Waynesburg, Pa. • 



February 15, 1905. 



