MOUNTED BIRDS FROM NORTHERN OHIO, 



IN THE academy's MUSEUM. 



DESCRIPTION BY J. P. KIRTLAND, PRESIDENT, 1858-9. 



INTRODUCTION. 



These specimens include nearly all the birds of Northern 

 Ohio, with many from other parts of the State. A large 

 part of them were procured and mounted by R. K. Winslow, 

 Esq., of this city. Some were donations of skins from South 

 America, by Lieut. Phelps of the Navy, a citizen of Ohio. 

 There are others from other parts of the United States and 

 the world, but it is only for the country that lies on or near 

 the South shore of Lake Erie that the collection is reason- 

 ably complete. A number of these were procured and 

 mounted by Oapt. B. A. Stanard and the late Hon. William 

 Case. 



Dr. Kirtland expended upon these descriptions, which 

 are taken from the Ohio Farmer^ edited by the late 

 Thomas Brown, more labor than a naturalist at this time 

 would imagine. He was obliged to draw more on personal 

 observation, and less upon books than they do who treat 

 the subject now. 



Some species have disappeared from the country during 

 the period of forty years covered by his observations, on 

 account of changes which took place while he was studying 



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