PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION. 



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Mr. Stone and Dr. Merriam, and those associated with them in the 

 work. 1 



A subcommittee on the revision of the vernacular names consisted 

 of the Chairman and Dr. D wight. The changes made are not numer- 

 ous, and are mainly the substitution of the vernacular names most in 

 use within the range of the species. (For a list of these changes see 

 the Fifteenth Supplement, published in ' The Auk/ July, 1909, pp. 302, 

 303). 



The final editorial supervision of the new Check-List was assigned 

 to the Chairman. 



Committee. 



J. A. ALLEN, Chairman. 



CHAS. W. RICHMOND, Secretary. 



WILLIAM BREWSTER. 



JONATHAN DWIGHT, JR. 



C. HART MERRIAM. 



ROBERT RIDGWAY. 



WITMER STONE. 



1 Besides the valuable assistance rendered by Messrs. W. W. Cooke, H. W. Henshaw, 

 E. W. Nelson, H. C. Oberholser, and W. H. Osgood, of the Biological Survey, Mr. 

 Joseph Grinnell, Curator of the Museum of Vertebrate ZoSlogy of the University of 

 California, has kindly revised the ranges of many of the species represented in California. 

 Messrs. Arthur T. Wayne, Andrew Allison, and H. H. Kopman furnished, respectively, 

 manuscript lists of the birds of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana, for the use 

 of the Committee. 



