BIRDS OF NEW YORK -j-j 



The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, New York, 

 by Theodore Roosevelt jr, and H. D. Minot, 1877, is a brief but satisfactorily- 

 annotated list of 97 species occurring in the Northern Adirondacks in the 

 summer time. This is the first definite study of our Adirondack avifauna. 



A List of the Birds of the Hudson Highlands with Annotations, by Dr 

 Edgar A. Meams appeared in the Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem, 

 Mass., beginning in volume 10, 1878, and concluded in volume 13, 1882, 

 with an addendum of four species published in the Auk, 1890. This is 

 one of our very best lists, including records of migration, relative abundance, 

 and food of the different species, together with a fine series of measurements 

 of birds taken in this State. These dimensions have been a constant source 

 of authority in the j)reparation of the present volume. It includes 213 

 species, 99 of which are recorded as breeding in the Highlands. 



.4 Revised List of Birds of Central New York, from the observations of 

 Frank R. Rathbun, Gilbert Fowler, Frank S. Wright and Samuel F. Rath- 

 bun, published at Auburn, N. Y., in 1879, is an admirable list of 236 species, 

 of which 83 are reported as breeding in central New York. The birds 

 named in this list are all admitted as New York species at the present 

 time. 



.4 Preliminary List of Birds Ascertained to Occur in the Adirondack 

 Region, North Eastern New York, by C. Hart Merriam M.D., i:)ublished in 

 the Auk, 1881, with addenda in 1882-84, is a briefly annotated list of 211 

 species, with valuable notes on the fauna and flora of the region. This 

 list, together with Dr Merriam's notes on Lewis county birds, published in 

 the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1878 and 1879, constitutes 

 the best account we have of the ornithology of the Adirondack region, con- 

 taining much that is interesting on the natural history of some of our 



native birds. 



.4 Review of the Summer Birds of a Part of the Catskill Mountains, 

 with Prefatory Remarks on the Faunal and Floral Features of the Region, 

 by Eugene Pintard Bicknell, published in the Transactions of the Linnaean 

 Society of New York, in 1882, is another valuable faunal list treating of 



