APPENDIX 



The following descriptive notes, numbered to cor- 

 respond with the bird portraits, will enable the reader 

 to identify any bird which he is permitted to kill at 

 certain seasons. The robin and the meadow-lark are 

 legal game in a few Southern States, but the writer 

 does not so regard them. 



The popiilar and techical names are those given in 

 the check-list of the American Ornithological Union, 

 with but few changes. The color descriptions, mark- 

 ings, and measurements are for the most part from 

 the following ornithological works : " North American 

 Birds," Baird, Brewer and Ridgway; "North Amer- 

 ican Shore Birds," " The Gallinaceous Birds," and 

 " Wild Fowl or Swimmers," three instructive books by 

 D. G. Elliot ; " The Birds of Eastern North America," 

 by Chapman, and the works of Audubon, Wilson, Coues, 

 Apgar, Forester, Lewis, Trumbull, and others referred 

 to in the text. I am indebted to The Auk, to Forest 

 and Stream, The American Field, Sportsman's Review, 

 Recreation, Outing, Shooting and Fishing, Field and 

 Stream, Sports Afield, Out of Doors, The National Sports- 

 man, and other periodicals to which credit has been 

 given. I am, too, much indebted to the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York, and the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Washington, for many mounted 

 specimens. 



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