LIST OF WORKS TO WHICH EEFERENCE IS 

 MOST FREQUENTLY MADE IN THIS VOLUME. 



The Auk, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Editor, J. A. Allen ; 

 Associate Editor, Frank M. Chapman. Published for the American 

 Ornithologists' Union. New York [35 Pine Street] : L. S. Foster. 



As the official organ of the American Ornithologists' Union The 

 Auk is the leading ornithological journal of this country. Volumes 

 I to VIII, 1876-'83, were published as the Bulletin of the Nuttall Or- 

 nithological Club (Cambridge, Mass.), the present name being adopted 

 upon the founding of the Union. Each volume of The Auk contains 

 about four hundred octavo pages and four colored plates ; price per 

 volume, $3 ; per number, 75 cents. 



Baird, S. F., Brewer, T. M., and Ridgway, R. A History of 

 North American Birds. . . . Land Birds [Vols. I to III], Illustrated 

 by sixty-four colored plates and five hundred and ninety-three wood- 

 cuts. Boston : Little, Brown & Company. 3 vols., 4to, 1874. Vol. I. 

 TurdidcB-FringillidcB, pp. 1-596 ; Vol. II. FringilUdcB-PicidcB, pp. 1- 

 590 ; Vol. HI, Strigidm-Perdicidm, pp. 1-560. (Issued also with un- 

 colored plates.)' Water Birds [Vols. I and II]. Published as Vols. XII 

 and XIII of the Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 (Cambridge). Issued in continuation of the publications of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of California. Boston : Little, Brown & Company. 2 

 vols., 4to, numerous woodcuts, mostly colored, 1884. Vol. I, Ardeidm- 

 Anatinm, pp. 1-537; Vol. 11, Anatince-AlcidcB, pp. 1-552. 



Bendire, Charles. Life Histories of North American Birds, with 

 Special Reference to their Breeding Habits and Eggs. With twelve 

 lithographic plates. 4to, pp. i-viii ; 1-414. Washington, 1892. Pub- 

 lished as Vol. XXVIII of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowl- 

 edge, and as Special Bulletin No. 1 of the United States National 

 Museum. 



The authority upon the groups of which it treats. 



Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. A Quarterly Journal 

 of Ornithology. Editor, J. A. Allen. Associate Editors, S. F. Baird 



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