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raphy of Ornitliology so far as America is concerned. They are pub- 

 lished in this manner in advance of the whole work for several reasons — 

 among others, both to render immediately available certain departments 

 of the Bibliography which are practically completed, and to invite criti- 

 cism and suggestions for the bettering of the work. I am satisfied that, 

 if 1 can come anywhere near the standard I have set for myself, I shall 

 have done a very useful thing; and I beg those who are interested in 

 the accomplishment of this undertaking to inform me of any defects 

 they may perceive. In only one particular would I deprecate criticism 

 at present — and this is respecting the arrangement of the titles; for the 

 scheme of the work cannot be fairly appreciated until the whole is x)ub- 

 lished, including the several contemplated Indexes. 



The portions of the Bibliography now before the public suffice for an 

 estimate of its plan and puri^ose; but I may add that nothing has yet 

 appeared of several other imj)ortant departments, such as those of 

 " General and Miscellaneous" publications, of loublications in "Anatomy 

 and Physiology", of publications relating to "Birds in Domestication 

 or Captivity", etc. It is not my intention, however, to print any more 

 of the work at present, the American departments being the only ones 

 sufficiently perfected to warrant their leaving my hands. But mean- 

 while I am making manuscript for the rest as rapidly and as continu- 

 ously as possible. 



NOTA BEXE : It being absolutely necessary, in this part of the work, to have some 

 fixed standard (no matter what one) for the grouping of species and genera into fam- 

 ilies, and for the sequence of the families, I have ado])ted as most convenient the 

 arrangement of Gray^s Hand-list, as far as the Passeres are concerned — the limitations 

 of the families in other orders being sufficiently nearly agreed upon by ornithologists. 

 For Passerine families, then, the titles have been assorted strictly and exactly according to 

 the composition and sequence of those (/roups in the work just mentioned. 



Hiriiiidiiiid £6 . 



[Here only titles additional to those given in ' ' Birds of the Colorado Valley ", pp. 378-389, 396-401, q. v.] 



1769. Laxmann, E. Hirundo daurica, area temporali rubra, Uropygio luteo rufes- 

 cente. <^Eongl. Svensk. Fetensk.-Acad. Handl., xxx, 17()9, pp. 209-213, pi. vii. 



1774. White, G. Account of the House Martin, or Martlet. <^Philos. Trans., Ixiv, 

 pt. i, 1774, pp. 196-201. 

 Habits of Ghelidon urbica. 



This celebratediuemoiris curiously misquoted in Carus and Engelmann, Bibl. Zool, ii, 1861, 

 p. 1375, as if referring to the mammal Mustcla foina, known as the "Marten". Gill andCoues 

 p^petuato the blunder in Monogrs. N. A. liodentia, 1877, App., p. 1005, by transcription of 

 the title into their Bihl. of N. A. Mammals. Cones exaggerated it in his Fur-bearing Ani- 

 mals, 1877, p. 77, by making out Mustela foina to have been instituted by Gilbert White, as 

 above! Thefunny mistake is shown up by Alston, P. Z. S., 1879, p. 469. The title is correctly 

 cited by Coues in Birds Colorado Valley, 1878, p. 396; as it is ;ilso by Giebel, Thes. Orn., p. 

 145. — It is hard to teach some people to verify quotations ! 



On the same page of Carus and Engelmann, lines higher up, occurs a no less singular 

 mistake : John Hunter's account of the ' ' Free Martin " (a local name for cattle with a certain 

 malfoi-mation) betug cited as if relating to some species of Mustela. Again, on p. 1345, same 

 work, a paper on the anatomy '■ of a male Otter '", Littrre maris (in the genitive), is allocated 

 with Enhydris, as if it were Lutra; maris, ' ■ of a Sea Otter ". 



1789. Carlson, G. V. Aumiirkningar om SvalOr. <^Eon<jl. Vetensk.-Acad. Nyt Handh, 

 X, 1789, pp. 315-317. 



