LITERATURE OF THE SUBJECT. 9 



result of their labors forming the groundwork of Ward's Flora,, already 

 mentioned. As a matter of fact, the present authors had little to go upon 

 beyond the records of a very few rare specimens which had been taken 

 from time to time and were preserved in the Smithsonian collection ; 

 though Mr. C. Drexler was then the taxidermist of the Institution, and 

 a diligent and successful collector, whose results were within their 

 ■ reach ; while the markets occasionally afforded him and them specimens 

 that might not otherwise have been noted. 



The " List" presented a summary of 44 permanent residents ; 44 win- 

 ter residents; 59 summer residents; 54 regular visitants, or migrants 

 neither summering nor wintering with us ; and 25 accidental visitants, 

 or stragglers, making a total of 226. There were also indicated 15 

 " probabilities," not, however, enumerated. 



On reviewing the subject, the authors find that only one species 

 (Podiceps cristatus, inserted by mistake) is to be eliminated. This leaves 

 a list of 225 species as the basis of the present article. Before noticing 

 the accessions to the list since 1862, however, the authors should refer 

 to Mr. Jouy's Catalogue of 1877. 



Though there have been meanwhile various detached notices of Wash- 

 ington Birds in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club and 

 elsewhere, by the present and other authors, Mr. Jouy's is the only com- 

 plete list which has since appeared. This was published in May, 1877, 

 in Vol. ii, No. 11, of "Field and Forest," t pp. 191-193, entitled: "Cata- 

 logue of the Birds of the District of Columbia." It was immediately 

 reprinted, together with some remarks we offered on the same occa- 

 sion, in a few separate copies entitled : " Catalogue of the Birds of the 

 District of Columbia, Prepared by Pierre Louis Jouy, with Bemarks on 

 the Birds of the District, by Drs. Coues and Prentiss." (1877. 8vo. 

 Washington, pp. 1-11.) This was simply a list of names, without an- 

 notation ; the stragglers indicated by an asterisk, the additions to the 

 old Coues and Prentiss List printed in italics. Mr. Jouy subtracted 1 

 species (Parus atricapillus — wrongly, as now appears), and added 15, 

 namely : 



1. # Geothlypis Philadelphia.* 



2. Vireo noveboracensis. 



3. Passer domesticus. 



4. Loxia americana.* 



5. Loxia leucoptera.* 



6. Quiscalus purpureus emeus. 



tA monthly periodical conducted through two volumes hy Mr. Charles R. Dodge. 

 It was ostensibly and virtually the organ of the Potomac-side Naturalists' Club, which 

 was galvanized into some sort of re-existence after having been long defunct. But 

 as an organization this Club was anachronistic, and, therefore, unable to survive. 

 Our present flourishing Biological Society has in one sense been evolved from the old 

 Club ; but is more properly to be considered in tbe light of a special creation of the 

 times than an evolution from what preceded. 



