INTKODUCTIOX. 



The relationship between authoraiid book in this work is 

 much closer than usual. The author has net only used his 

 pen, but also pencil, engraver, brush, and press in producing 

 the book. Thus in the Warblers of New England the reader 

 will find embodied the author's idea of the classification of this 

 group of birds, of the form and coloration of the species, and 

 of the typography of the text as well as he has been able to 

 present these subjects. In short, the book is original from 

 title to end. 



This hook has been written especially for friends and pu- 

 pils in order that they may have, in a permanent form, what 

 the author has taught them regarding a family of birds, the 

 members of which, presenting, as they do, bright and beautiful 

 patterns of coloration, and singing, as they do, quaint and often 

 sweet songs, are, among all of the attractive songsters of cop- 

 pice and woodland, preeminently the gems. American War- 

 blers — exclusively our own — throughout the world we find 

 no finer group of birds, thus they may well be considered the 

 pride of the American ornithologist. 



C. J. M. West Newton, Mass.: Oct., 1901. 



