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hireling, a clock-watcher, and his sufficient as coveted meed is the pay envelope. 
But those of us who enjoy the work are sufficiently rewarded already. What 
tho the envelope be empty! We've had our fun and—vwell, yes, we'd do it again, 
especially if you thought it worth while. 
But the chief reward of this labor of love has been the sense of fellowship 
engendered. ‘The progress of the work under what seemed at times insuperable 
difficulties has been, nevertheless, a continuous revelation of good will. “Every- 
body helps” is the motto of the Seattle spirit, and it is just as characteristic of the 
entire Pacific Northwest. Everybody has helped and the result is a composite 
achievement, a monument of patience, fidelity, and generosity far other than 
my own. 
I gratefully acknowledge indebtedness to Professor Robert Ridgway for 
counsel and assistance in determining State records; to Dr. A. K. Fisher for 
records and for comparison of specimens; to Dr. Chas. W. Richmond for con- 
firmation of records; to Messrs. William L. Finley, Herman T. Bohlman, A. W. 
Anthony, W. H. Wright, Fred. S. Merrill, Warburton Pike, Walter I. Burton, 
A. Gordon Bowles, and Walter K. Fisher, for the use of photographs; to Messrs. 
J. M. Edson, D. E. Brown, A. B. Reagan, E. S. Woodcock, and to a score of 
others beside for hospitality and for assistance afield; to Samuel Rathbun, 
Prof. E. S. Meany, Prof. O. B. Johnson, Prof. W. T. Shaw, Miss Adelaide Pol- 
lock, and Miss Jennie V. Getty, for generous cooperation and courtesies of many 
sorts; to Francis Kermode, Esq., for use of the Provincial Museum collections, 
and to Prof. Trevor Kincaid for similar permission in case of the University of 
Washington collections. My special thanks are due my friend, Prof. Lynds Jones, 
the proven comrade of many an ornithological cruise, who upon brief notice and 
at no little sacrifice has prepared the Analytical Key which accompanies this work. 
My wife has rendered invaluable service in preparing.manuscript for press, 
and has shared with me the arduous duties of proof-reading. My father, Rev. 
W. E. Dawson, of Blaine, has gone over most of the manuscript and has offered 
many highly esteemed suggestions. 
To our patrons and subscribers, whose timely and indulgent support has made 
this enterprise possible, I offer my sincerest thanks. To the trustees of the 
Occidental Publishing Company I am under a lasting debt of gratitude, in that 
they have planned and counselled freely, and in that they have so heartily seconded 
my efforts to make this work as beautiful as possible with the funds at command. 
One’s roll of obligations cannot be reckoned complete without some recogni- 
tion also of the dumb things, the products of stranger hearts and brains, which 
have faithfully served their uses in this undertaking: my Warner-and-Swasey 
binoculars (8-power )—I would not undertake to write a bird-book without them; 
the Graflex camera, which has taken most of the life portraits; the King canvas 
boat which has made study of the interior lake life possible ;—all deserve hon- 
orable mention. 
Then there is the physical side of the book itself. One cannot reckon up the 
