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BIRDS OF NEW YORK 



This little book is not expected to give everyone a com- 

 plete history of the birds of this state. To do so would 

 require an immense volume. But it is designed to bring to 

 the attention of the reader the most common, the most inter- 

 esting and the most valuable birds and to create an inter- 

 est which it is hoped will be the means of starting many on 

 a more extended study of our most interesting fauna. In 

 the last few pages is a quite complete list of New York 

 birds and concise data in regard to their occurrence. 



As might be expected considering the size and location 

 of the state, a very great many species occur or have been 

 taken here. The sandy beaches and mud flats of Long 

 Island furnish an ideal retreat or resting place for all sorts 

 of water fowl and shore birds. 



The Carolinian Area of the Austral Zone extends to Long 

 Island and the Lower Hudson Valley; hence a great many 

 southern species occur, species that otherwise would be 

 very unusual in this latitude, such as Kentucky, Hooded and 

 Worm-eating Warblers. The greater part of the state is 

 in the Alleghanian Area of the Transition Zone and pro- 

 duces all the species that should occur in this latitude, 



