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grebe, Manx shearwater and Little stormy i^etrel, which are European 

 species with no definite records for New York, though cited l.)\- most of the 

 earlv writers. His records of L e s t r i s ]j a r a s i t i c u s and L. r i c h - 

 a r d s o n i probabh- l)oth refer to the Parasitic jaeger. His Canadian 

 woodpecker may be the Northern hairy woodpecker, subspecies 1 e u c o m e- 

 1 a s, but no recent records or specimens are known. The Wood wren is 

 now regarded the same as the House wren. Thus it is evident that Giraud 

 treated 280 of our present hst as occurring on Long Island. 



The Zoology of New York, Part 2, Birds, by James E. DeKay, also 

 appeared in 1844, published by the State Museum. This large quarto work 

 includes 353 pages of text, with descri])tions and brief histories, and 141 

 plates, showing 358 figures of native l)irds in colors. DeKay describes 309 

 species as belonging to New York or, like the Carolina paro<]viet, as having 

 occurred here. Some species like the Magpie, Carolina titmouse, and Whist- 

 ling warbler are admitted on su])position or hearsay evidence. The Wood 

 wren and Hemlock warbler are n(_)t \'alid species, and the Crested grebe is 

 European. This is the best known account of New York birds, although it 

 has been e^•ident for many years that important additions should he made 

 to bring the knowledge of our ornithology to the present time. Li the 

 64 vears which have elapsed since DeKay's report, about 100 species have 

 l)een added to the State list. 



George N. Lawrence's List of the Birds of Xeiv I'ork and \'iLiiiity, 

 which appeared in :866 in the Proceedings of the Linnaean Societv of New 

 York, enumerates 327 species, but only a few are annotated. The Crested 

 grebe. Common murre, Manx shearwater. Little stormy petrel. Tropical 

 fulmar and Carolina chickadee appear without definite records and no 

 New York specimens have been fotmd in the Lawrence collection. The 

 European woodcock and Red-cockaded woodpecker were entered as having 

 occurred in neighboring jiarts of New Jersey, and the Hutchins gull. Green- 

 backed mallard, Cooper sandpiper anil Wood wren are not regarded as 

 valid species. Thus Lawrence included 315 of our j.iresent list as New Yfirk 

 species. 



