﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  79 
  

  

  migration 
  dates 
  are 
  taken 
  from 
  his 
  Handbook 
  of 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Eastern 
  North 
  

   America, 
  and 
  from 
  An 
  Annotated 
  List 
  of 
  the 
  Birds 
  Known 
  to 
  Breed 
  within 
  

   Fifty 
  Miles 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  City, 
  Guide 
  Leaflet 
  14, 
  American 
  Museum, 
  1904. 
  

   120 
  species 
  are 
  listed 
  as 
  breeding 
  near 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  A 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Chemung 
  County, 
  by 
  William 
  H. 
  Gregg 
  M.D., 
  

   189 
  1, 
  mentions 
  200 
  species, 
  but 
  only 
  165 
  are 
  accorded 
  any 
  definite 
  records 
  

   for 
  Chemung 
  county. 
  

  

  Birds 
  of 
  Western 
  New 
  York 
  With 
  Notes, 
  by 
  Ernest 
  H. 
  Short, 
  Albion, 
  

   1896, 
  records 
  289 
  species 
  as 
  occurring 
  and 
  119 
  as 
  breeding. 
  

  

  The 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Sing 
  Sing, 
  N. 
  Y 
  ., 
  by 
  Dr 
  A. 
  K. 
  Fisher, 
  of 
  the 
  

   Biological 
  Survey, 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C., 
  is 
  taken 
  from 
  Chapman's 
  Handbook, 
  

   1898, 
  and 
  gives 
  a 
  very 
  complete 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  migration 
  dates 
  for 
  the 
  lower 
  

   Hudson 
  valley. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  birds 
  in 
  the 
  list 
  is 
  233. 
  

  

  Birds 
  of 
  Long 
  Island, 
  by 
  William 
  Dutcher, 
  part 
  of 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  

   Chapman's 
  Handbook, 
  1898, 
  gives 
  the 
  best 
  dates 
  we 
  have 
  for 
  the 
  migration 
  

   of 
  waterfowl 
  and 
  shore 
  birds 
  on 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  These 
  notes, 
  together 
  

   with 
  numerous 
  records 
  of 
  Long 
  Island 
  birds, 
  which 
  have 
  appeared 
  from 
  time 
  

   to 
  time 
  in 
  the 
  Auk 
  are 
  included 
  in 
  these 
  columns. 
  

  

  Mr 
  Dutcher 
  has 
  kindly 
  consented 
  also 
  to 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  his 
  Long 
  Island 
  Notes 
  

   consisting 
  of 
  three 
  large 
  volumes 
  of 
  records 
  and 
  a 
  fourth 
  containing 
  

   complete 
  data 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  specimens 
  in 
  his 
  collection 
  taken 
  on 
  Long 
  Island, 
  

   over 
  2000 
  specimens. 
  These 
  have 
  furnished 
  much 
  more 
  exhaustive 
  migra- 
  

   tion 
  dates 
  than 
  were 
  obtained 
  from 
  his 
  published 
  notes. 
  

  

  Birds 
  of 
  Western 
  New 
  York, 
  by 
  Elon 
  Howard 
  Eaton, 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  

   the 
  Rochester 
  Academy 
  of 
  Science, 
  1901, 
  includes 
  319 
  species, 
  of 
  which 
  

   128 
  are 
  known 
  to 
  breed. 
  It 
  gives 
  the 
  relative 
  abundance, 
  migration 
  and 
  

   nesting 
  dates 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  records 
  for 
  rare 
  species, 
  and 
  also 
  contains 
  a 
  

   chart 
  to 
  illustrate 
  graphically 
  the 
  time 
  and 
  manner 
  of 
  occurrence 
  of 
  each 
  

   species. 
  

  

  Birds 
  of 
  Madison 
  County, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  by 
  George 
  Charles 
  Embody, 
  Colgate 
  

   University, 
  1901, 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  satisfactory 
  list 
  of 
  192 
  species, 
  75 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  

  

  