4 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



I have not only profited from his excellent "Birds of Indiana" (one of our most com- 

 plete and most admirably arranged list of birds), but he has kindly reviewed my list 

 and offered most valuable suggestions, has loaned me books and papers, and has given 

 me very valuable assistance in the preparation of the bibliography. 



I have profited much from the accurate lists of Michigan birds, prepared by Dr. 

 Morris (iibbs of Kalamazoo, Michigan, from his many valuable articles in the several 

 ornithological papers, and additions, corrections and suggestions given me in the 

 preparation of this list. Dr. Gibbs has also helped me very much in the preparation 

 of the bibliography. 



The kindness of Professor J. A. Allen, and Drs. Elliott Coues, C. Hart Merriam, 

 A. K. Fisher and Rol)ert Ridgway in reviewing a preliminai-y list, and suggesting 

 important changes, is most heartily appreciated. I have also received very great aid 

 from the valuable manuals of Drs. Coues. Ridgway and Jordan, the excellent treatises 

 of Samuels and Davie, and the other American works that treat of birds. I have been 

 materially aided by my many students, especially Mr. C. B. Cook and L. Whitney- 

 Watkins, and by the many correspondents whose names appear in the text, especially 

 Messrs. A. H. Boies, Hudson; Jerome Trombley, Petersburg; Stewart E. White, Grand 

 Rapids; Profs. J. W. Simmons. Ovvosso: and James Satterlee, Greenville; Drs. J. B. 

 Steere. Ann Arbor: W. C. Brownwell, Morrice. and Messrs. J. B. Purdy. Plymouth: 

 F. M. Falconer. Hillsdale: E. E. Brewster. Iron Mountain: Ludwig Kumlein, Milton. 

 Wisconsin; E. L. Moseley, Sandusky, Ohio; H. Nehrling, custodian city museum, Mil- 

 waukee, Wisconsin; C. S. Osborn, Sault Ste. Marie; M. L. Leach, Traverse City; Dudley 

 E. Waters, Grand Rapids: and L. S. Foster of New York City. 



The admirable illustrations were received through the kindness of Messrs. Estes and 

 Lauriat, and are the same that are used by Dr. Coues to illustrate his valuable Man- 

 ual of North American Birds. The illustration for the European Sparrow was received 

 through the courtesy of Dr. Edwin Willits of the Department of Agriculture. 



I have adopted the arrangement of the American Ornithological Union, and so give 

 after the serial number of each species the number of the species as it occurs in the 

 Union list. I have also appended in parenthesis, the number of the species as given in 

 Coues' Key and Check List. This is for the convenience of beginners, who have or 

 should have this valuable manual. 



These numbers will prove of great convenience in correspondence and in mak- 

 ing exchanges. Although I strongly recommend every student of birds and every 

 would be student to ]n-ocure Coues' Key to the Birds of North America, I have not 

 used his arrangement or nomenclature, as they are not what he would use were he 

 preparing his work today; but as I have given his numbers, there would be no difficulty 

 in using this list and his invaluable book, which I regard as near perfection as any 

 work of the kind which I have ever seen in any line of science. This list will enable 

 any student to correct Coues' nomenclature according to the accepted nomenclature of 

 the Ornithological Union, which was prepared by a committee of which Dr. Coues 

 was himself a member. In the back part of the last edition of Dr. Cones' Key will be 

 found the two nomenclatures side by side. 



PECULI.ARITIES OF OUR MICHIO.\N BIRD FAUN.\. 



Our bird fauna, like our entire fauna, owing to the protection given by the great 

 lakes, which nearly surround us. is very interesting. As Dr. C. Hart Merriam has shown 

 by a colored maj), issued by the Department of Agriculture in March, 1892. we have 



