could be arrived at as to the future of the work. Finally it was arranged that Mrs. N. E. Jones, the 

 mother of Miss Genevieve, should assist with the coloring, and the publication should proceed as before. 

 After some months. Miss Shulze assigned to Dr. N". E. Jones all her interest in the book, past and 

 future. Under this new condition. Dr. N. E. Jones assumed all expenses, and again the work made 

 progress, Miss Shulze being employed to make the drawings upon stone. For some time every thing- 

 went smoothly, and a speedy completion of the lithographing was expected, when, for reasons entirely 

 satisfactory, in April, 1880, Miss Shulze withdrew from the undertaking. 



Again the publication was brought to a halt, but not being willing at this stage to abandon it, Mrs. 

 N. E. Jones determined to do the drawing as well as the coloring, and, after some delays, the work began 

 to grow. Owing to the great amount of labor, it was soon found that assistance would be needed, and 

 Miss Xellie D. Jacob, of Circleville, was engaged to color the eggs, and later, Miss Josephine KlipjDart, 

 a well-known artist of Columbns, 0., gave valuable assistance in coloring nests, and still later, Miss 

 Kate Gephart, of Circleville, was employed with her brush for nearly a year. During her association 

 with the work, Miss Shulze drew Plates I, III, V, VII, VIII, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, and XIX. All the 

 remaining plates, excepting II, IV, VI, X and XV, were drawn by Mrs. N. E. Jones, and the patterns 

 for all the coloring, together with the greater part of the coloring itself, after Plate VI, with the exception 

 of the eggs, were done by her. After Part VIII, the eggs were painted by Miss Jacob from the originals, 

 with the greatest patience, faithfulness and skill. 



The text, as originally begun, has been continued by Dr. Howard Jones. A cabinet containing 

 representatives of every species of egg and many nests of Ohio birds, and field notes extending 

 over a number of years, have furnished the facts. Wherever information has been derived from other 

 sources, credit is given, with the exception of the article upon the Quail, beginning at "Remarks," 

 written by Dr. X, E. Jones, and several references to the finding of the nests of some of the water-birds 

 in the Montezuma Marshes, taken from MSS. by Dr. Lloyd Smith. 



From its commencement in 1878 to the present time, 1886, this work has been steadily progressing 

 to an end, subject to the interruptions named, and such others as have been caused by sickness, and 

 minor circumstances which would necessarily arise during a period of years, to temporarily interfere with 

 its advancement. Aside from the entertainment and instruction accompanying the study of birds in their 

 homes, and the delineation of their vjirious styles of architecture, it has been a great pleasure to us to 

 continue to completion an undertaking so unfortunately interrupted at almost its very beginning. It has 

 also been a satisfaction to us to know that, however poor our efi^orts, we were breaking ground in a new 

 field, which, with the cultivation of time, will yield a rich and beautiful harvest. Numerous publications, 

 varying in merit from the productions of Wilson and Audubon to the small octavo of but a few pages, 

 have appeared at different times, giving the j^lumage of the birds of Xorth America, together Avith such 

 habits as the Avriters were familiar with, but in all the mass of ornithological literature up to 1878, it 

 was only occasionally that nests and eggs were figured. Superficial descriptions of nests and eggs were 



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