622 LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED 



mentioned, but the principal works on the Ornithology of Siberia, Persia, Afghanistan, and Japan 

 are indicated in the List of Local Faunas (p. 630). 



For the Circumpolar Eegion see H. Schalow's Die Vogel des Arktis (1904). 



The first part of a new work in Eussian on the Fauna of the Russian Empire (Oiseaux, by V. L. 

 Bianchi) was issued in 1911. 



Information on many species which occur in Northern Asia will also be found in The Fauna of 

 British India : Birds, vols. i. and ii., by E. W. Gates ; iii. and iv., by W. T. Blanford ; The Nests and 

 Eggs of Indian Birds, 3 vols., by A. 0. Hume and E. W. Gates (1889-90); A Handbook to the Birds 

 of British Burmah, 2 vols., E. W. Gates (1883) ; Les Oiseaux de la Chine, by A. David and E. Oustalet 

 (1877) ; Catalogues of the Birds of China, by R. Swinhoe, published in the Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. of 

 London for 1863 and 1871. [F. c. R. J.] 



(c) Nearctic Region. 



The following important general works have been consulted in addition to the older works of 

 J. J. Audubon, A. Wilson, Swainson and Richardson, etc. : 



S. F. Baird, J. Cassin, and G. N. Lawrence, The Birds of North America. 2 vols. (1860). 



S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway, A History of North American Birds. 3 vols. (1874-75). 



The Water-Birds of North America (1884). 2 vols. 

 E. Cones, Key to North American Birds (1872). Revised edition (1884). 

 C. Bendire, Life Histories of North American Birds. 2 vols. (unfinished). (1892 and 1895.) 

 R. Ridgway, A Manual of North American Birds (1887). 2nd edit. (1896). 



The Birds of North and Middle America. 5 vols. issued (in progress). (1901- .) 

 J Macoun, Catalogue of Canadian Birds (1900). 2nd edit. (1909). [F. C. R. J.] 



(d) British. 



G. Montagu, Dictionary of British Birds (1802). Supplement (1813). 



W. Macgillivray, A History of British Birds. 5 vols. (1837-52). 



J. Gould, The Birds of Great Britain. 5 vols. (1862-73). 



W. Yarrell, A History of British Birds. 4th edition revised by A. Newton and H. Saunders. 

 4 vols. (1871-85). 



H. Seebohm, A History of British Birds. 6 vols. (1883-1886). 



H. Saunders, Manual of British Birds. 2nd edit. (1899). 



C. J. Patten, Aquatic Birds of Great Britain and Ireland (1906). 



E. Hartert, F. C. R. Jourdain, N. F. Ticehurst, and H. F. Witherby, A Handlist of British Birds 

 (1912). 



E. Booth, Rough Notes. See below (IV). [F. B. K.] 



III. MONOGRAPHS. (Habits.) 



J. G. Millais, Game Birds and Shooting Sketches (1892). 



The Natural History of the British Surface-feeding Ducks (1902). 



The Natural History of British Game Birds (1909). 



British Diving Ducks. 2 vols. (1913). 



H. E. Howard, The British Warblers : a History with problems of their lives (1907- ). 

 S. Alpheraky, The Geese of Europe and Asia (1905). 



Th. Pleske, Ornithographia Rossica, vol. ii. pts. i.-v. (Sylvidse) [all published] (1889). 

 A. B. Meyer, Unser Auer-, Rackel-, und Birkwild (1887). 



H. Seebohm, A Monograph of the Turdidce (completed by R. B. Sharpe). 2 vols. (1885-1894). 

 R. B. Sharpe and C. W. Wyatt, A Monograph of the Hirundinidce. 2 vols. (1885-1894). 



