in "Bird Lore" for Jan.— Feb. 1905, the issue now unob- 

 tainable at the office of publication. 



Fourth : owing to the great demand upon my time in 

 attending to correspondence relative to Martin colonization 

 and the lengthy explanations and repetitions usually requir- 

 ed in detailing the information sought, I have deemed it ex- 

 pedient to publish the articles in the present form. 



The summer of 1908 being a very successful season with 

 the Martins in and about Waynesburg, enabled me to add 

 considerable to my experience and secure some additional 

 photographs which will be found not the least attractive 

 of the halftone reproductions embellishing this little 

 pamphlet. 



Some of my correspondents, whom I have endeavored 

 to assist in establishing the birds have written me their ex- 

 perience, the substance of which I have incorporated in my 

 additional notes which occupy the concluding pages of this 

 booklet. The other pages are presented in the order of the 

 date of original publication. 



The plates are accompanied by proper explanations, and 

 foot-notes and annotations are introduced when the same is 

 thought desirable. Special attention should be called to these 

 foot-notes and plate descriptions, some of which contain very 

 important observations, enlarging upon the information con- 

 tained in the main body of the text. 



J. Warren Jacobs. 



Waynesburg, Pa. 

 January, 1, 1909. 



