BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX 



The appended titles of general and local ornithological publications 

 have been selected from the great mass of literature relating to American 

 birds, in part with regard to their historic importance, but mainly on 

 the basis of their present working value. They include chiefly sys- 

 tematic and faunal works, references to special books and papers being 

 given in their proper connection in the body of the book. 



It is hoped that the section devoted to local lists/ as they are com- 

 monly termed, will be of much assistance to the faunal naturalist and 

 particularly to students of the bird-life of the regions to which, respec- 

 tively, they refer. Unfortunately many of these papers are now out of 

 print, but the Librarian of the American Museum of Natural History 

 may be consulted with a view to securing, at cost, type-written copies 

 of those not otherwise available, and which are of sufficient importance 

 to warrant the expense involved. 



THE WORLD 



1875-1895.. SHARPE, B. and others. Catalogue of Birds in the British 



Museum. 27 vols. with descriptions of the birds of the world, ills. 1885. 

 STEJNEGER, L., and others. Riverside Natural History. Vol. IV, Birds,' 4to, 

 558 pp., ills. (Houghton, Mifflin). Classification, structure, habits, distri- 

 bution. 1893-1896. NEWTON, A., and others. A Dictionary of Birds. 

 Pop. Ed., 8vo, 1088 pp., ills. (Macmillaii). 1894-95. LYDEKKER, R., and 

 others. Royal Nat. Hist., Birds, 4to, Vols. Ill, 584 pp., and IV, 576 pp., 

 ills., General account. 1899. EVANS, A. H., Birds. Vol. IX, Cambridge 

 Natural History (Macmillan), 8vo, 635 pp., ills. Classification, habits, 

 distribution. 1899-1909. SHARPE, B. A Hand-List of the Genera and 

 Species of Birds. 8vo, 5 vols. Published by British Museum. Names and 

 Ranges. 1909. KNOWLTON, F. H., and others. Birds of the World, sm. 

 4to, 873 pp., ills. (Holt). Habits, distribution. 



NORTH AMERICA 



1808-14. WILSON, A. American Ornithology. 9 vols., 4to. Many sub- 

 sequent editions, the last, in one volume, by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 

 is crude, but at least places Wilson's text within reach of every one. 1831-39. 

 AUDUBON, J. J. Ornithological Biography. 5 vols., 8vo of text to accompany 

 the 4 elephant folios of plates (1827-38). Republished in 8 vols., 8vo, 1840-44 

 and later editions. The elephant folios with the 5 volumes of text sell for $2500 

 -$3000 ; the text can sometimes be purchased at $5 per volume ; the first 8vo 

 edition brings about $350. 1832-34. NUTTALL, T. Manual of the Orni- 

 thology of the United States and Canada. 2 vols. Several later editions, the 

 last revised by Montague Chamberlain (Little, Brown & Co.), 1903, 2 vols. 

 in one, 473 and 431 pp. 1872. COUES, E. Key to North American Birds. 

 1903, 5th and last ed., 2 vols., roy. 8vo, 1152 pp. The introduction, of 233 

 pages, treats of general ornithology and the anatomy of birds. 1874-1884. 

 BAIRB, S. F., BREWER, T. M., and RIDGWAY, R. History of North Ameri- 

 can Birds. Land birds, 3 vols.; water birds, 2 vols., 4to. The volumes on 

 land birds republished in 8vo size but from same plates, 1905, 596, 590, 560 



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