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Tlic Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, .V«£' Y'ork, 

 by Theodore Roosevelt jr, and H. D. Minot, 1877, is a brief but satisfactorily 

 annotated list of 97 species occurring in the Northern Adirondacks in the 

 summer time. This is the first definite stvidv of our Adirondack avifauna. 



.4 List of the Birds of tlie Hudson Highlands with Annotations, by Dr 

 Edgar A. Mearns appeared in the Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem, 

 Mass., lieginning in volume 10, 1878, and concluded in volume 13, 1882, 

 with an addendum of four s^iecies jjublished in the Auk, 1890. This is 

 one of our very best lists, including records of migration, relative abundance, 

 and food of the different species, together with a fine series of measurements 

 of l)irds taken in this State. These dimensions have been a constant source 

 of authority in the ])reparation of the present volume. It includes 213 

 species, 99 of which are recorded as breeding in the Highlands. 



A Revised List of Birds of Central Xcic York, from the observations of 

 Frank R. Rathlnm, Gilbert Fowler, Frank S. Wright and Sanuicl F. Rath- 

 Ijun. published at Auburn, X. Y., in 1879, is an admirable list of 236 species, 

 of which 83 are reported as breeding in central Xew York. The birds 

 named in this list are all admitted as New York species at the present 

 time. 



.4 Preliminary List of Birds Ascertained to Occur in the Adirondack 

 Region, Xorth Eastern Xeic York, ])y C. Hart Merriam M.D., published in 

 the Auk, 1881, with addenda in 1882-84, is a briefly annotated list of 211 

 species, ^^'ith ^•aluable notes on the fauna and flora of the region. This 

 list, together with Dr Merriam's notes on Lewis count)' l)irds, pulilished in 

 the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Clul), 1878 and 1879, constitutes 

 the best account we have of the ornithology of the Adirondack region, con- 

 taining much that is interesting on the natural history of some of our 



native birds. 



.4 Revieic of the Stimnicr Birds of a Part of tJie Catskill Mountains, 

 ivith Prcfatorv Remarks on the Faunal and Floral Features of the Region, 

 by Eugene Pintard Bicknell, published in the Transactions of the Linnaean 

 Society of Xew York, in 1882, is another valuable faunal list treating of 



