PREFACE 



HIS work is published for the pur|)08e of presenting at once a table of the higher groups and a checklist of the liinis that ««• 

 found within the boundaries of the Dominion, and to place these l)cfore the student in the simplest and clearest niethixl. 



In Classification and Nomenclature this Table conforms strictly to The Code of Nomenclature and Check-Lu>l of North Americitn 

 Birdg adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union, with the exception of the few alterations made since the Cheek-Litt was issuwl 

 and which are noted in the writer's Ottalogue of Canadian Birds. 



The species of the Table are identical with those of the Catalogue, exwpting a few additions and elimiiintions which will Ix' fnuiid 

 noted in the Appendices. 



The writer takes this opportunity of assuring the friends who have so kindly assisted him in the work, that his promised Bibliography 



of Canadian Ornithology is well under way, and will probably be published during the coming summer. 



M. C. 



Saint John, February, 1888. 



