Preface 



It is my hope that these little Sketches 

 may lead others to enjoy all that I have 

 enjoyed " On the Birds' Highway." 



The appendix contains a number of lists 

 of birds from those localities treated in the 

 body of the book, which may be of some 

 value to field ornithologists. 



I wish to thank Mr. Louis Agassiz 

 Fuertes for his great kindness in present- 

 ing me with the frontispiece, the Editors 

 of the Boston " Commonwealth " and 

 "Transcript" for their permission to re- 

 print a number of the chapters which have 

 appeared in their papers, and also m^ny 

 other friends for kind assistance in vari- 

 ous ways. 



REGINALD HEBER HOWE, Jr. 



LoNGWooD, Massachusetts, 

 April, 1899. 



