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Summary of Species. 



Species definitely recorded, - - - - - 297 



Species with indefinite records, - - - - 18 



Species here exterminated, ----- 2 



Foreign species introduced, ----- 2 



Abundant species, ------ 38 



Common species, ------ 5^ 



Fairly common species, ------ 76 



Uncommon species, ------ 29 



Occasional species, - - - - - - 22 



Rare species, ------- 54 



Accidental species, - - - - - - 39 



Residents, ------- 23 



Summer residents, ------ 99 



Transient visitants, - - - - - - 112 



Winter visitants, ------- ^i 



Summer visitants, - - - - -- 13 



Species which regularly breed, - - - - - 97 



Species which occasionally breed, - - - - 43 



Acknowledgments. 



Credit has been given in the text for all contributions to the 

 list for which the author is not personally responsible, but for services 

 which cannot be thus recognized, thanks are due Louis Agassiz Fuertes 

 of Ithaca; Egbert Bagg of Utica; James Savage of Buffalo, and 

 A . W. Pernor of Syracuse. 



Bibliography, Explanations. 



The chief publications which have been consulted in the prepara- 

 tion of the list are as follows: 



"A Revised List of the Birds of Central New York." Auburn, N. Y. 

 1879. Prepared for publication by Frank R. Rathbun. 



"Annotated List of the Birds of Oneida County, N. Y. ," etc., by 

 Wm. L. Ralph, M. D., and Egbert Bagg. 

 [Frotn the Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society, III, loi ; i886.'\ 



" List of the Birds of Buffalo and Vicinity," 1889, by W. H. Berg- 

 told, M. D. 



\^Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists' Field Club, Vol. I, No. 7.] 



" Birds of Niagara County, N. Y.," by J, L. Davison. 



[ "■Forest and Stream, ' ' September, i88g. ] 



