BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX 



lilSX OF FAUiVAli PUB1.ICAXION8 RFIiATINC} TO NOBXU 

 AmOBICAN ORNITHOI^OCir 



A certain portion of my Bibliography of Ornithology has 

 advanced so far toward completion that it becomes available 

 in its present state for all practical purposes. It is accordingly 

 published in advance of the whole work, as an appropriate and 

 desirable Appendix to the present treatise on IsTorth American 

 Ornithology. The plan and scope of this piece of bibliography 

 should be stated explicitly, in order that those who wish to 

 use it may know exactly what it does, and what it does not, 

 contain. 



It consists of the packet of titles representing the North 

 American section of the " Faunal Publications" series, includ- 

 ing titles and digests of works and papers relating solely to 

 Birds of North America indiscriminately, collectively, or in 

 general. In short, the titles are those that relate to the Birds 

 of North America as such — not as components of any genus or 

 family. Hence are excluded, for example, all such titles as 

 "A Monograph of the Tringece of North America", which 

 might seem to belong here; for such a title comes, in the 

 " Systematic " portion of my Bibliography, under Scolopacidce. 

 All general treatises on the birds of larger geographical areas, 

 even if including North America (like Sclater's " Catalogue of 

 American Birds" for example), are excluded, as are also all 

 general works on ornithology. By this means, the scope of 

 the present article is conveniently narrowed and rendered per- 

 fectly definite; and only in a few instances, for one or another 

 particular reason, is the rigidity of the rule of exclusion relaxed. 



The bulk of the titles of course consists of "local lists" and 

 allied kinds of articles. As a " faunal publication " may relate 

 to any geographical area, from that of North America itself 

 to that of a single locality, the titles embrace a range of publi- 

 cations from the works of Wilson or Audubon down to the 



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