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12. hoc. cit,, p. 205. 



13. Newton, Alfred. Diet, of Birds. Article: Ousel. 



14. Nichol, M. J. Three Voyages of a Naturalist. London, 1908, p. 160. 



15. Selous, Edmund. Bird Watching. London, 1901, p. 148. 



16. hoc. cit., p. 153. 



17. hoc. cit., p. 152. 



18. hoc. cit., p. 159. 



19. Loc. cit,, p. 148. 



20. Loc. cit., pp. 150-151. 



21. Loc. cit., p. 156. 



22. Selous, Edmund. 



1905, p. 72. 



23. Loc. cit., p. 50. 



24. Loc. cit,, p. 168. 



25. Townsend, C. H. 



26. Townsend, C. W. 



27. Morgan, C. Lloyd 



The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands. London, 



Bird Lore, X, 1908, p. 171. 



Birds of Essex County. Cambridge, 1905, p. 80. 

 Habit and Instinct. London, 1896, p. 69. 



A REPRINT OF THE ORNITHOLOGICAL WRITINGS 

 OF C. S. RAFINESQUE. 



Part II. 1 



BY CHARLES W. RICHMOND. 



Rafinesque, with his brother, left Leghorn in March, 1802, 

 and landed in Philadelphia on the 18th of April. He at once began 

 to botanize, collect specimens, and make drawings. He says 

 ('Life of Travel,' p. 17): "My brother had become a sportsman, 

 and procured me many birds. I wanted to undertake the Orni- 

 thology of the United States, finding many of them new or unknown, 

 or badly described. I continued also to study the Snakes and 

 Reptiles, communicating some of them to Daudin for his work on 

 Reptiles." So, it appears, Rafinesque narrowly escaped being the 

 Father of American Ornithology. However, this plan, like many 

 others projected by him, fell through, and on his first visit to the 



i For Part I see antea, pp. 37-55. 



