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These are almost all at the end of Volume IIII, and the crowd- 

 ing was necessitated by the unwillingness of the subscribers to 

 have the work extend beyond the stipulated 80 numbers (400 

 plates). Even as it was, thirty-five additional plates were re- 

 quired, and a number of subscribers refused to take them. 1 



Forty-seven new specific names occur on the plates, and should 

 date from them and not from the 'Ornithological Biography.' 

 Some of these seem to have been entirely overlooked, as "Fringilla 

 maculata" for the Blackheaded Grosbeak, and "Strix californica" 

 for the California Burrowing Owl. Others seldom cited are 

 "Falco labradora," based on a Labrador Gyrfalcon, and "Cinclus 

 townsendi" on a young Water Ouzel. A remarkable generic name 

 on the plate of the Surf-bird is "Frinea townsendi" Those who 

 believe in adopting every spelling as a different generic term are 

 welcome to replace Aphriza with this lapsus calami, but for my 

 part it goes as a misspelling of Tringal None of these names are 

 mentioned in any of Audubon's subsequent works. A complete 

 list of the new species is given below. 



II. The Ornithological Biography. 



This work, in five volumes, is the text to the folio plates and the 

 species are treated in exactly the same order. It was published in 

 Edinburgh. 



Vol. I, dated 1S31 (March in the preface), covers plates 1 to 100. 



Vol. II, dated 1834, covers plates 101-200. The preface is dated 

 December 1 but it is quite likely that it did not appear until after 

 January 1, 1835. 



Vol. Ill, dated 1835 (December 1, in preface), covers plates 201- 

 300, and certainly did not appear until the following year, as many 

 of the plates here treated are dated 1836. 



Vol. IV, dated 1838 (November 1, in preface), covers plates 301- 

 387 (was reviewed in February, 1839). 



Vol. V, dated 1839 (May 1, in preface — had appeared by July 

 27), covers the remaining plates, with the addition of a great 

 amount of supplementary matter concerning various species, and 

 the description of a number of new ones. 



1 See Introduction to Vol. IV, Orn. Biography, pp. xxi-xxii. 



