Conclusion. 



THE object constantly kept in view in penning the 

 foregoing catalogue of the migratory tribes, which 

 visit these shores, has been one of service to many 

 of my wild fowling friends, true sportsmen in every 

 sense, who come here, year by year. I am conscious of 

 many shortcomings in fixing the more exact haunts from 

 which many birds emanate and breed. If the able and 

 experienced chroniclers of the migrants in the past have 

 written craving the indulgence of the reader, I feel I am 

 infinitely more in need of such indulgence, and as man is 

 but mortal, and his best work is oft-times a sorry attempt, 

 I am quite content if my numerous readers will regard the 

 foregoing pages, which, in my leisure I have somewhat 

 hastily penned, simply as a guide. 



THE AUTHOR. 

 December, 1909. 



