Principal Carlton D. Howe willingly and generously responded to 
the invitatipn to undertake the work as designed, upon which he has 
been en^apd for more than two years. In his hands its scope has 
been enlarged, ^nd much valuable material has been added in lists of 
migratory and local hij-da, directions of sources to help and in other 
information. The work itself evidences the painstaking care and suc- 
cessful efforts of the author to render high service to the teachers and 
pupils of our public schools. It is the fruition not only of his recent 
investigations but also of his personal observation and study extending 
from early boyhood. Just and grateful acknowledgment is gladly ren- 
dered to Mr. Howe for his valuable and generous work, unrequited 
only by the satisfaction of study and the consciousness of service. In 
acknowledging his indebtedness to others he thereby expresses the 
grateful appreciation of this office. 
April, 1905. W E R 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
The thanks of the author are due to Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davenport 
and to my brother, Clifton D. Howe, who read portions of the manu- 
script and offered valuable suggestions; to Frank M. Chapman, author, 
and to D. Appleton & Co., publishers, for permission to use descriptions 
of birds contained in Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America; to 
Mr. Chapman also for permission to photograph mounted specimens of 
birds in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City; to 
Prof. G. H. Perkins for allowing the use of the mounted birds in the 
Museum of the University of Vermont; to Dr. H. P. Perkins tor photo- 
graphing the birds both in Burlington and in New York; to those per- 
sons who have furnished the author with lists of birds, and migration 
lists from different sections of the State, which have been of much 
value to him in determining the period of arrival from the South of 
the species described in this pamphlet; to those bird students who 
have kindly consented to answer the inquiries of teachers and school 
children in regard to birds. In preparing this bulletin the writer has 
referred freely to many bird books, scientific and popular, bird maga- 
zines, and the bulletins issued by the Biological Survey of the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 
