LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Chapel Hill, N. C, April 1, 1918. 



To His Excellency, Honorable T. W. Bickbtt, 



Governor of North Carolina. 



Sir: — There is liere\vith submitted for publication, as Volume IV of the 

 reports of the North CaroHna Geological and Economic Survey, a treatise on 

 The Birds of North Carolina which has been prepared by Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, 

 Secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies; Mr. H. H. Brimley, 

 Curator of the State Museum, and Mr. C. S. Brimley, NaturaUst. 



This report was printed in 1913, by E. M. Uzzell, Pubhc Printer, and the 

 material was all ready for binding when the whole edition was destroyed by the 

 fire which burned Mr. Uzzell's plant. In this reprint additional matter has 

 been added in the way of notes and illustrations, bringing the volume up to date. 



Yours respectfully, 



Joseph Hyde Pratt, 



State Geologist. 



