APPENDIX. 443 
F. Additions and Corrections. 
Add to the list of books given in foot-notes to the Preface, “ Studer’s Ornithol- 
ogy,” “the Birds of North America, drawn, engraved, and colored from life by 
Theodore Jasper, A.M., M.D.” This is to be published (by subscription, at one 
dollar for each number) in about forty parts, many of which have already been is- 
sued. Each part contains one uncolored, and three colored lithographic plates, in 
which the figures of the larger birds are often admirable, while those of the smaller 
kinds are generally very much less successful. The letter-press consists of short 
biographical sketches, and synopses of classification. 
Add to §S of the Introduction, on the study of birds’ habits, the following: It 
will be found very advantageous to make observations continuously from day to day, 
as one will not only see many birds who otherwise would escape him, but will ac- 
quire an invaluable familiarity with their little characteristics (which one may often 
think insignificant) and so an intimacy with the birds themselves, which will enable 
him, for instance, to detect the presence of the Brown Creepers by their shrill and 
slightly tremulous tsiy, where another person might require more certain indica- 
tions, or more impressive evidence. Moreover, one will find that intimacy suffers 
from interruption, and that knowledge is easily lost, however thoroughly gained. 
Therefore, one may chance to find a familiar song no longer associated with any. 
bird. On the other hand, those who in studying nature are obliged to do so at in- 
tervals will be surprised at the amount of pleasurable acquaintance which they 
can form with her at odd moments, There are few places where birds cannot be 
studied to advantage, not excluding the hearts of our cities, where may be found 
creepers, nuthatches, titmice, warblers, vireos, flycatchers, shrikes, etc., some- 
times even hawks. Finally, it is to be remembered that birds are frequently er- 
ratic, and that observations on their abnormal habits are, as a rule, interesting 
observations rather than important discoveries. 
The Hermit Thrushes are said occasionally to catch flies in the manner of 
Swainson’s Thrushes, who perhaps are more common wigrants through southern 
New England than I have indicated in my biography of those birds. 
The Hudsonian Titmice probably breed in several parts of northern New Eng- 
land, and in the Adirondacks. They wander in winter s0 far to the southward 
as Connecticut, and more than one has been obtained in Massachusetts. The 
Crested Tomtit (Lopophanes bicolor), is said to have occurred in New England. 
To the accounts of the warblers, it may be added that several Orange-crowned 
Warblers have now been obtained in Massachusetts (for whigh information I am 
chiefly indebted to Mr. H. A. Purdie); that the Blackburnian Warblers are con- 
sidered by a friend, rather to the contrary of my own observations, to be very ex- 
pert fly catchers, and that I have seen them near Buston on the tenth of October; that 
the Prairie Warblers sometimes feed upon the ground, and, moreover, have been 
found exceptionally among the White Mountains, at Bethlehem; that the Hooded 
Warbler has been definitely reported from Connecticut; and that the Yellow-breasted 
Chats are reported to be common summer-residents at Oyster Bay, Long Island, 
where Blue Birds winter, and where Cedar-birds have been seen in autumn in 
flocks of more than a hundred. 
Mr. Ridgway has suggested that the anecdote quoted from the “ Naturalist,” pp. 
141, 142, of this book, is probably referable to the Rough-winged Swallow, a bird 
closely resembling the Bank Swallow, and common in that section of the country, 
where the circumstance quoted is reconcilable to the usual habits of this species. 
On p. 257, it should have been mentioned that the Adirondacks belong to the 
Canadian faunal district. 
