1 2 Birds of Oregon and Washington 



Chapman's " Bird-Life " has served me on occa- 

 sion, as he will see, should he take the trouble 

 to look into these pages. 



To Mr. T. Brook White, gratitude is due for 

 his labor, under difficulties, in photographing the 

 birds, " half-tones " of which appear among the 

 pages of the book.* 



Thanks are due to friends for aid in manu- 

 script and proof reading, and in copying. 



In preparing the book, I have had the en- 

 couragement and constant assistance of my wife. 

 Her deep sympathy with the subject and her 

 literary sense have rendered her services too 

 valuable not to have them recognized in this 

 place. 



* One of these, that of the Western Evening Grosbeak, remains in 

 this edition. I am indebted to the Curators of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York, Dr. Allen and Mr. Chapman, 

 for the use of the birds for the five pictures composed, photographed 

 and touched by Mr. H. C. Denslow of that institution; to Dr. C. F. 

 Hodge, of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., for the pictures of the 

 living Waxwing and the Robin ; to Miss Ida E. Hegner, of Decorah, 

 Iowa, for another ; to Rev. H. W. Gleason for all except two of the 

 remaining photographs of birds, living and dead. One of these, the 

 living Killdeer, though taken by Mr. Gleason, comes through the cour- 

 tesy of the " Outing " Company, New York ; the other, the living 

 brooding American Herring Gull, through the courtesy of Mr. Wm. 

 Dutcher, of the Protective Committee of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union. 



