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gentleman for permission to reprint from liis volume, 

 Camp lyife in Plorida, the chapter contributed to that 

 work by Mr. Boardman. To Prof. L,eslie A. Lee, Bow- 

 doiu College, Brunswick, Maine, for collating the vol- 

 umes of the American Naturalist. To Charles G. Atkins, 

 superintendent of the Government Fish-hatching Station 

 at Green I^ake, East Orland, Maine and to his sister. 

 Miss Helen Atkins, for collating the volumes of Forest 

 and Stream. To Prof. Ora W. Knight, ex-President of 

 Maine Ornithological Union, Bangor, Maine, for his 

 interest in the work and for revising the list of St. Croix 

 Birds to make it conform to the present scientific nomen- 

 clature. To the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 

 New York, for the use of the plate of portrait of Charles 

 Hallock. P'inally, I wish to acknowledge the assistance 

 I have received from my wife, Mrs. Alma Staples Board- 

 man. She has not only corrected the MS. but has col- 

 lated and revised the scientific lists, read all the proofs, 

 revised and re-revised the page proofs, made the index 

 and had oversight of the typographical work involved, 

 without which the volume could not have presented that 

 freedom from errors which it is believed now character- 

 izes it. 



Bangor, Maine, June 12, 1903. 



