LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



CHAPEL HILL, N. C., June 1, 1913. 



To His Excellency, HONORABLE LOCKE CRAIG, 



Governor of North Carolina. 



SIR:- I herewith submit for publication, as Volume IV of the reports of the 

 North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, a report on The Birds of North 

 Carolina which has been prepared by Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies; Mr. H. H. Brimley, Curator of the 

 State Museum, and Mr. C. S. Brimley, Naturalist. 



This report is published as one of the series of volumes, as it represents a de- 

 tailed study, and, as far as possible, a complete report of the subject up to the 

 present time. Yours respectfully, 



JOSEPH HYDE PRATT, 



State Geologist. 



