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so well known as the illustrator of Baird, Brewer & 

 Ridgway s great work and of Mr. Elliot's trilogy of 

 game bird volumes, speak for themselves. 



The pen sketches drawn by Mr. Wilmot Townsend 

 hardly need be commented on. Mr. Townsend is an en- 

 thusiastic gunner and has devoted much time to study- 

 ing wildfowl in their homes. The drawings which he 

 has made will call up to every gunner of experience 

 memories of a happy past. 



Mr. William Brewster has kindly permitted me to 

 use the photographs illustrating the nesting of the 

 Golden Eye, which accompanied his interesting paper on 

 the subject in the Auk. 



The very useful chart of the duck, in the back of the 

 booky is taken by the kind permission of the author from. 

 Mr. Charles B. Corys Birds of Eastern North America 

 — Water Birds. G. B. G. 



October, jpoi. 



