APPENDIX IV. . 



A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF 

 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 1 



BY CLARENCE M. WEED. 



THE importance of birds as checks upon the undue increase of 

 noxious insects has long been recognized by observing men scat- 

 tered here and there throughout the United States. But a general 

 appreciation of the value of these feathered allies is of com- 

 paratively recent development, and in some regions they are still 

 unappreciated. 



The literature which has led to a wider knowledge of the value 

 of birds has been scattered through many publications, much of 

 which is inaccessible to the general reader, and some of it diffi- 

 cult to obtain even by the specialist. In the following pages I 

 have attempted to bring together a bibliographic list of the more 

 important articles treating of the economic relations of our birds. 

 In compiling it I have had the help of Messrs. A. F. Conradi, 

 W. F. Fiske, and R. A. Cushman, while assistants in the ento- 

 mological department of this station. For a number of citations 

 of articles in Forest and Stream I am indebted to the pages of 

 The Auk, while a few others have been gleaned from various 

 other sources. It has been impracticable to include citations of 

 the great mass of literature treating specifically of game-birds, 

 or their acclimation and domestication, as well as of the 

 thousands of references to the English sparrow, and of the many 

 general bird books of recent years. 



1854. GORGAS, JOHN. Importation of Skylarks. United States 

 Patent Office, Agricultural Report, 1853, pages 70-71. 



Account of an importation of skylarks into America in the 

 spring of 1853. 



1 Reprinted, with corrections and additions, from Technical Bulletin 

 No. 5, New Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station. 



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