Bibliography 80 1 



First Instalment. In appendix to " Birds of the Colorado 

 Valley." 1 



Second. In " Bulletin of the United States Geological and 

 Geographical Survey of the Territories." 2 



Third. In the same " Bulletin." 3 



In the preface to this List of Faunal Publications, the dis- 

 tinguished authority on birds names the rules that governed 

 his action as a bibliographer, which deserves the attention of 

 others. He says : " In conducting this work I habitually re- 

 gard the title as inviolable, to be transcribed in full, ver- 

 batim, literatim, et punctuatim"; and again, "No title in this 

 Bibliography has been taken at second hand." The an- 

 notations accompanying titles are critical, erudite, and enter- 

 taining. 



Baird's " Review of American Birds in the Museum of the 

 Smithsonian Institution" (i864-'66), contains a fund of bibli- 

 ographical matter, though not specifically prepared as a bib- 

 liography. This statement is also true of Baird's Catalogue, 

 published in the "General Report on Birds," contained in the 

 Pacific Railroad Reports. 4 This catalogue was succeeded by 

 Elliott Coues's "Check-list of North American Birds" 5 (Salem, 

 1873), and by Ridg way's "Nomenclature of North American 

 Birds" (1881). These were followed by the "Code of No- 

 menclature and Check-list of North American Birds," pub- 

 lished by the American Ornithologists' Union in 1886 (second 

 edition, 1895), which contains references to the original de- 

 scription of each species. This work was prepared by a 

 committee of five, including Elliott Coues and Robert 

 Ridgway, Curator of Birds of the United States National 

 Museum. 



1 Miscellaneous Publication, United States * Volume IX (1858). 



Geological Survey, No. n. 5 Published also as an Appendix to Coues's 



2 Volume v, No. 2 (1879). Field Ornithology " (1874), a second edition 



3 Volume v, No. 4 (1880). of which appeared in 1882. 



