PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. 

Turovuas the courtesy of Mr. Frank M. Chapman, 
Assistant Curator of the Department of Mammalogy 
and Ornithology in the American Museum of Natural 
History, New York city, the publishers have used in 
this volume several of the admirable cuts prepared 
for his standard work, Handbook of Birds of East- 
ern North America. The full-page pictures, which 
are credited in the list of illustrations, reproduce 
groups in the American Museum of Natural History. 
These pictures, like some of the line drawings in the 
text, were made under Mr. Chapman’s personal super- 
vision, and the publishers desire to make special ac- 
knowledgment to Mr. Chapman for their use in this 
volume. 
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