12 . BIRDS OF ALABAMA 



Cormack's list in existence is one which he saved for his own 

 use, and which is now deposited in the library of the Depart- 

 ment of Archives and History, at :^ontgomery. I have quoted 

 freely from it in the following pages. Pressure of business 

 prevented Mr. McCormack from pursuing his bird studies 

 after the completion of his list, and 17 years passed before 

 the appearance of another local list from the State. 



In 1908, Aretas A. Saunders published a list of 129 species 

 of birds observed from March 7 to June 9, 1908, in portions 

 of Coosa, Clay, and Talladega Counties, chiefly in the region 

 about Mount Weogufka.t The list included records of a num- 

 ber of rare and interesting birds, among them the Nashville,. 

 Bachman, and Kirtland warblers, and extended the known 

 breeding range of the black-throated green warbler to central 

 Alabama. 



In the "First Report of the Department of Game and Fish 

 of the State of Alabama," published in 1908, there appeared 

 a nominal list of the birds which might be expected to occur 

 in Alabama, by Dr. Harry C. Oberholser. This numbered 

 275 sp^ies, and included (so Dr. Oberholser tells me) 77 

 forms for which no definite record existed. Most of these, 

 however, have since been added to the State list on the basis 

 of authentic records.** 



In 1914, Lewis S. Golsan and Ernest G. Holt published a 

 list entitled "Birds of Autauga and Montgomery Counties,"^ 

 numbering 184 species and based almost entirely on observa- 

 tions of the authors.* This list is fully annotated and gives 

 detailed records of nesting habits of many species. A sup- 

 plementary paper by the same authors in 1917 adds seven 

 more species.f 



In 1921, Ernest G. Holt published an "Annotated List of the 

 Avery Bird Collection," listing 216 species taken in Ala- 

 bama, and giving extensive quotations from Dr. Avery's field 



tThe Auk, vol. 25. pp. 413-124, 1908. 



••The folloYrintt species oecurring in Oberholser's list have not yet been discovered in. 

 Alabama: Noddy tern (Anons stolidus stolidas), elossy ibis (Ple^adig antumnalis), white- 

 fro'nted goose (Anser albifrons albifrons), eolden plover (Pluvialis [Charadrins] domlnica 

 dominiea), white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia lencophryg), Carolina junco (Junco hye- 

 malis carolinensis). Cairns warbler (Dendroica caemlegcens caimsi), sycamore warbler- 

 (Dendroica dominiea albilora), and moumins warbler (Oporomis Philadelphia). 



•Golsan and Holt, The Auk, vol. 81, pp. 212-286, 1914. 



tGolsan and Holt, The Auk, vol. 34, pp. 466-467, 1917. 



