380 Erichsen, Birds of Liberty County, Ga. [jaly 



pp. i-viii, 9-346, pll. 281-250; Vol. VI, pp. i-vii, 9-298; 

 Vol. VII, pp. i-vii, 9-285, pll. 395-440; Vol. VIII, pp. i-viii, 

 9-256, pll. 441-500. 



The seventh complete (? see Nos. 14 and 16, above), last 

 and ninth edition of the text of Audubon's ' Birds.' 



Sets of this issue, but without plates (and also bearing no 

 date) were apparently circulated to some extent ; at least one, 

 answering to this description, was offered for sale in New 

 York in January of this year. 



SOME SUMMER BIRDS OF LIBERTY COUNTY, 

 GEORGIA. 



BY W. J. ERICHSEN. 



To so thoroughly investigate the summer bird life of any selected 

 area as to leave but slight room for belief that additional species, 

 unsuspected of breeding in the area, would ever be subsequently 

 discovered, would require continuous field work extending over a 

 period of several years; therefore the present paper, based on 

 notes made by the writer during a ten months' residence, from 

 January 3 to November 1, 1913, at Allenhurst, Liberty County, 

 Georgia, can in no wise be considered as being more than a brief 

 review of the more common and characteristic breeding birds of 

 the county. It is rather a preliminary list, intended for further 

 elaboration by, and as information for, future workers in the field 

 which it covers, and for the use of anyone who may be contemplat- 

 ing the compilation of a complete list of the birds of the state, to 

 both of whom it may, I hope, prove of some value. Very little 

 has been put into print respecting the avifauna of the coast region, 

 or indeed of any part of the state of Georgia, and anything pertain- 

 ing thereto, however meagre and of a local character, is a welcome 

 addition to our knowledge of the state's bird life. It is with this 

 realization that ornithological literature is almost destitute of 



