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grebe, Manx shearwater and Little stormy petrel, which are European 

 species with no definite records for New York, though cited b}- most of the 

 earlv writers. His records ofLestris parasiticus and L. r i c h - 

 a r d s o n i probably both refer to the Parasitic jaeger. His Canadian 

 woodpecker may be the Northern hairy woodpecker, svibspecies 1 e u c o m e- 

 1 a s, but no recent records or specimens are known. The Wood wren is 

 now regarded the same as the House wren. Thus it is evident that Giraud 

 treated 280 of our present list as occurring on Long Island. 



The Zoology of Xeiv York, Part 2, Birds, by James E. DeKay, also 

 appeared in 1844, published by the State Museum. This large quarto work 

 includes 353 pages of text, with descriptions and brief histories, and 141 

 plates, showing 358 figures of native birds in colors. DeKay describes 309 

 species as belonging to New York or, like the Carolina paroquet, as having 

 occvirred here. Some species like the Magpie, Carolina titmouse, and Whist- 

 ling warbler are admitted on supposition or hearsay evidence. The Wood 

 wren and Hemlock warbler are not valid species, and the Crested grebe is 

 European. This is the best known account of New York birds, although it 

 has been evident for many years that important additions should be made 

 to bring the knowledge of our ornithology to the present time. In the 

 64 years which have elapsed since DeKay 's report, about 100 species have 

 been added to the State list. 



George N. Lawrence's List of the Birds of New York and Vicinity, 

 which appeared in 1 866 in the Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New 

 York, enumerates 327 species, but only a few are annotated. The Crested 

 grebe. Common murre, Manx shearwater. Little stormy petrel, Tropical 

 fulmar and Carolina chickadee appear without def;nite records and no 

 New York specimens have been found in the Lawrence collection. The 

 European woodcock and Red-cockaded woodpecker were entered as having 

 occurred in neighboring parts of New Jersey, and the Hutchins gull. Green- 

 backed mallard, Cooper sandpiper and Wood wren are not regarded as 

 valid species. Thus Lawrence included 315 of our present list as New York 

 species. 



