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BOOKS OF REFERENCE. 
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GENERAL WORKS. 
American Ornithologists’ Union. Check-List of North American 
Birds. Second Edition (1895). 
Audubon, John James. Birds of America. — Ornithological Biography. 
Baird, Spencer F. Review of American Birds. Smithsonian Mis. Col. 
1864-1866 ; U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, vol. ii. part ii. 1859. 
Baird, S. F., Cassin, J., and Lawrence, G. N. Pacific R. R. Reports, 
vol. ix., Birds, 1858. 
Baird, S. F., Brewer, T. M., and Ridgway, R. History of North 
American Birds. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 3 vols., Land Birds, 
1874; 2 vols., Water Birds, 1884. 
Beddard, F. E. Study and Classification of Birds. Longmans, Green & 
Co., New York, 1898. 
Bendire, Charles E. Life Histories of North American Birds. Smith¬ 
sonian Institution, 2 vols. 1892, 1895. (Land birds through Icterid®.) 
Cassin, J. Illustrations of the Birds of Texas, California, etc., 1853,1855, 
1856. 
Cooper, J. G., and Suckley, G. Pacific R. R. Report, vol. xii. No. ii. 1860. 
Coues, Elliott. Bibliography of Ornithology, Part i., Faunal Papers, 
Appendix to Birds of Colorado Valley, 566-784, 1878 ; Parts ii. and 
iii., Systematic Papers, Bull. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., Hayden, vol. 
v. Nos. 2 and 4, 1879; Part iv., Faunal Papers on British Birds, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. ii. for 1879. — Birds of the Colorado Valley, U. S. 
Geol. Surv. Terr. 1878. — Birds of the Northwest, U. S. Geol. Surv. 
Terr. 1874. — Key to North American Birds, 5th ed., Dana Estes & Co., 
1903. 
Evans, A. H. Cambridge Nat. Hist., vol. ix., Birds. Macmillan Co., 
New York, 1S99. 
Fisher, A. K. Rept. Om. Death Valley Exped., N. A. Fauna No. 7, 
1893. U. S. Dept. Agr. 
Heerman, A. L. Pacific R. R. Rept., vol. x. part iv. Nos. i. and ii., Birds, 
1859. 
Henshaw, H. W. Rept. Orn. Spec., Wheeler’s Surv. for the Years 1871, 
1872, and 1873. — Exp. West Hundredth Meridian, vol. v. chap. iii. Zo¬ 
ology, 1875. 
Kennerly, C. B. R. Pacific R. R. Rept., vol. x. No. 3, Birds, 19, 1859. 
Merriam, C. H. ^Mammals and Birds. 6th Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. 
Terr. 1872. 
Nelson, E. W. Rept. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska Arct. Ser., No. iii. part i., 
Birds, 1877. 
Newton, Alfred. Dictionary of Birds. Macmillan Co., New York, 4 
vols., 1893-1896. 
Ridgway, Robert. Birds of North and Middle America. Bull. No. 50, 
U. S. Nat. Mus. 1901, 1902. — Hummingbirds, Ann. Rept. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. 1890, sec. iii. 253. — Nomenclature of Colors, Little, Brown & 
Co., Boston, 1896.—Manual of North American Birds, J. B. Lippin- 
cott Co., Philadelphia, 2d ed. 1896. — Ornithology of Survey of 40th 
Parallel, U. S. Geol. Expl., part iii. 1877. 
Stejneger, L., and Others. Riverside Natural History, vol. iv., Birds. 
(1885.) Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 
