1891] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 105 



LIST OF BIRDS RESIDENT IN SUMMER NEAR THE CITY OF 

 BALTIMORE. 



BY AETHUK KESLER 



This list, which includes our resident birds, is based upon 

 specimens collected and direct observations made in the vicinity 

 of Baltimore, chiefly within a radius of five or six miles there- 

 from ; but occasionally from a distance of twelve to fifteen miles 

 southeast from the city, since I had frequent opportunities to 

 visit that part of the country. 



Excepting with regard to one species, sent to me for identifi- 

 cation, I have confined myself to personal observations, and in 

 no case have I relied upon the statements of other persons, nor 

 upon the authority of the distribution of birds as generally 

 recorded. 



While it is not the purpose of this paper to write a natural 

 history of our birds, nor to discuss questions of classification, it 

 seems expedient to offer here and there such notes and remarks 

 as may throw fresh light upon their peculiarities, habits and 

 distribution. In further elucidation of the subject, the musical 

 notation of a few songs of species are given, and such as will 

 probably excite general interest. This procedure must, how- 

 ever, be considered as a first attempt, and rather as opening a 

 branch of ornithology which the writer intends to pursue in the 

 future as opportunities offer. 



The nomenclature here given, in so far as the names, both 

 scientific and common, are concerned, is that adopted by Mr. R. 

 Ridgway in his " Manual of North American Birds," and the 

 order here followed is that given in one of the older catalogues 

 of the same author, published in the " Collections of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution." 



[MAY 1,1891.] 



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