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migration dates are taken from his Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North 

 America, and from An Annotated List of the Birds Known to Breed within 

 Fifty Miles of New York City, Guide Leaflet 14, Anierican Museum, 1904. 

 120 species are listed as breeding near New York. 



A Catalogue of the Birds of Chemung County, by William H. Gregg M.D., 

 189 1, mentions 200 species, but only 165 are accorded any definite records 

 for Chemung county. 



Birds of Western New York With Notes, by Ernest H. Short, Albion, 

 1896, records 289 species as occurring and 119 as breeding. 



The list of the Birds of Sing Sing, N. Y., by Dr A. K. Fisher, of the 

 Biological Survey, Washington, D. C, is taken from Chapman's Handbook, 

 1898, and. gives a very complete record of the migration dates for the lower 

 Hudson valley. The number of birds in the list is 233. 



Birds of Long Island, by William Dutcher, part of which appeared in 

 Chapman's Handbook, 1898, gives the best dates we have for the migration 

 of waterfowl and shore birds on the coast of the State. These notes, together 

 with numerous records of Long Island birds, which have appeared from time 

 to time in the Auk are included in these columns. 



Mr Dutcher has kindly consented also to the use of his Long Island Notes 

 consisting of three large volumes of records and a fourth containing 

 complete data of all the specimens in his collection taken on Long Island, 

 over 2000 specimens. These have furnished much more exhaustive migra- 

 tion dates than were obtained from his published notes. 



Birds of Western New York, by Elon Howard Eaton, Proceedings of 

 the Rochester Academy of Science, 1901, includes 319 species, of which 

 128 are known to breed. It gives the relative abundance, migration and 

 nesting dates as well as the records for rare species, and also contains a 

 chart to illustrate graphically the time and manner of occurrence of each 

 species. 



Birds of Madison County, N. Y., by George Charles Embody, Colgate 

 University, 1901, is a very satisfactory list of 192 species, 75 of which are 



