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of Eastern North America” is a model of its class, and its lines—all too 
briei—have proved a fertile source of inspiration. On the more popular 
side grateful mention may be made of Langille’s “Our birds in their Haunts”, 
and Nehrling’s “Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty.” 
To my friend and ornithological brother, Professor Lynds Jones, | am 
under the deepest obligations for assistance in the prosecution of this work. 
Altho having a more accurate knowledge of bird-ways than I, he generously 
consented to set aside certain plans of his own, and has not spared to give 
me valued counsel and aid of every sort. ‘To the list of signed sketches 
which bear his name, should be added the article on the Bob-white, whose 
signature was inadvertently omitted. 
I gratefully acknowledge indebtedness to the State University authori- 
ties, and especially to Professors Osborn and Hine, for the use of museum 
material and for many kindnesses beside; to Mr. C. B. Galbreath of the 
State Library, and to Mrs. Lida Wheaton for the loan of valuable books: 
to Rev. Leander S. Keyser, D.D., Dr. Joshua Lindahl, Dr. F. W. Langdon, 
Dr. Howard Jones, Messrs. C. H. Morris, E. J. Arrick, Wm. Hubbell Fisher, 
and others, for gracious hospitality; to Rev. W. F. Henninger, Professor 
Wm. S. Mills, Robert J. Sim, R. L. Baird, Walter C. Metz, R. F. Griggs, 
and others, for signed sketches, pictures, and data; and to a host of corre- 
spondents and friends beside, for hearty cooperation which has made this 
work a pleasant task and one in a measure representative of the whole state. 
To my wife is due a large measure of credit for her painstaking and 
unselfish work upon the manuscript and in proof-reading. Without her aid 
the work must have been delayed several months. 
1 cannot conclude without making grateful acknowledgment also of the 
sustained interest of my friend and coadjutor, Mr. L. H. Bulkley, and of 
the service of all those who in good conscience have wrought upon this book, 
to give it a comely appearance, a body better, I fear, than the expression of 
its animating spirit, but not higher, I venture to believe, than its aim. 
W. Leon Dawson. 
Columbus, Dec. 15, 1903. 
