LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 
To His Excellency, 
Governor Thomas E. Kilby, 
Montgomery, Alabama. 
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the manu- 
script of an annotated list of the Avery bird collection, 
with the request that it be printed as Museum Paper No. 
4 of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, (Geologi- 
cal Survey Museum). 
Very respectfully, 
EUGENE A. SMITH, 
State Geologist. 
University of Alabama, 
September, 1921. 
