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them important) have been made. Particularly 

 important are the alterations in the lists of birds 

 under the former headings, " Peculiar," " Va- 

 riety," and " Identical." 



Some of the changes in the text are due to 

 the recent renaming of birds on the authority 

 of the American Ornithologists' Union, e. g. the 

 change in the names of the Gambel's and the 

 Intermediate White-crowned Sparrows. 



The author closes these preliminary state- 

 ments with acknowledgments again to Mr. A. 

 W. Anthony, the eminent ornithologist upon 

 this coast, who has been as generous and helpful 

 in the making of this book as he was in the 

 making of the first one, and to Mr. Frank M. 

 Chapman, the distinguished ornithologist and 

 assistant curator of the Department of Mam- 

 malogy and Ornithology of the Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, New York City, who by criticism 

 and suggestion has been of the greatest assis- 

 tance. But neither he nor Mr. Anthony is 

 responsible for any errors that may be in these 

 pages ; to their aid rather, will be due the ab- 

 sence of many which otherwise might be found. 



The author is anxious to make it possible for 



