JANUARY 30, 1902. VOL. /I, pp. 5-23. 



CONTRIBUTIONS 



TO 

 NORTH AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



BY 



REGINALD HEBER HOWE, JUNIOR, 

 LONGWOOD, MASSACHUSETTS. 



A REVIEW OF PROF. GEORGE H. PERKINS' "A PRE- 

 LIMINARY LIST OF THE BIRDS FOUND 

 IN VERMONT."* 



INTRODUCTION. 



HAVING had in view the ultimate publication of a list of the 

 birds of Vermont, I have collected and compiled all the available 

 data, and here beg leave to present my results in the form of a 

 review of Prof. Perkins' " A Preliminary List of the Birds Found 

 in Vermont." 



Prof. Perkins' List is hardly as complete or careful a one as we 

 to-day look for in like works, and it contains unfortunately many 

 noticeable errors. Prof. Perkins does not pretend to be an ornith- 

 ologist, and acknowledges the shortcomings of his work. He 

 undertook its publication only at the request of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, and the list will, I fear, encumber the bibliography 

 of Vermont ornithological literature, rather than prove of value in 

 a needed place. It is on account of its inadequateness that I ven- 

 ture to add what I can to correct and amplify his List, though 

 the avi-fauna of Vermont as yet is little known, and Prof. Perkins' 

 List and this Review must be accepted only as a basis for future 

 investigation. 



*A Preliminary List j of the j Birds Found in Vermont. | By | George H. 

 Perkins, Ph. D., | Professor of Natural History, University of Vermont. | 

 Assisted by | Clifton D. Howe, M. S., | Assistant in Biology, University of 

 Vermont.... | New York and Albany | 1901 | Separate, pp. 1-34, published 

 Dec. 24, 1901. Also published Jan 15, 1902,111 the Twenty-first Annual Report 

 State Board of Agriculture for 1901, pp. 85-118. 



