APPENDIX. 
[A.] CHECK LIST OF OHIO BIRDS, WITH DATES OF THEIR 
OCCURRENCE. 
As stated in the introduction, the nomenclature of Dr. Coues’s Check 
List is that adopted in the preceding pages. Since the publication of 
that list, many changes have been made by Dr. Coues and others, affect- 
ing the nomenclature of our birds. Such changes as were generally 
accepted prior to 1880 have been adopted. 
In the following pages I have adopted the nomenclature and order of 
Mr. Ridgway’s Check List.* 
In this list not only the nomenclature but the order will be found 
changed from that of the foregoing pages, but in no case is this believed 
to be so complete as to prevent a ready recognition. 
The number following the common name is the number in Mr. Ridg- 
way’s list. No systematic attempt to record the arrival and departure 
of birds has been made, the dates being simply the records of ordinary 
observation and collections. Unless otherwise noted these dates apply 
to birds observed in the vicinity of Columbus, so that, excluding the 
birds unnoted, we have a list of the birds of Franklin county. 
Two birds in the list being introduced species, and not indigenous to 
the United States, are not numbered. Species whose occurrence must be 
considered purely accidental are numbered in brackets. 
The list gives 292 species, 4 of which are represented by additional 
varieties, and 2 introduced species, making a total of 298 species and 
varieties. Of these 6 are considered accidental. 
* Nomenclature of North American Birds, chiefly contained in the United States 
National Museum. By Robert Ridgway. Bulletin of the United States National 
Museum. No. 21. Published under the direction of the Smithsonian Institute. Wash- 
ington: Government Printing Office, 1881. 
