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Footnotes:[1]‘Upon the Tree-Tops’, 3, 1897.[2]Mr. A. A. Saunders advises me that so far as he is aware this is the only record of nesting of the Horned Grebe in Montana, although he has found two previous records of occurrence of the species in the state.[3]A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, by Thomas Nuttall. Second edition of the volume on Land Birds. Boston, 1840.[4]Narrative of a Journey Across The Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c. With a Scientific Appendix. By John K. Townsend. Philadelphia, 1839.[5]An unbiased account of Audubon’s efforts to secure these specimens is given in Chapter XXXI, Vol. 2, of Dr. Herrick’s recent historical study ‘Audubon The Naturalist.’ Further light on the subject may be found in a letter from Audubon to Harris under date of Oct. 26. 1837, published in the Auk, Vol. XX, p. 370, by S. N. Rhoads. Audubon has left a full account of his activities at this time in the Introduction to Vol. 4 of the ‘Ornithological Biography.’[6]Notes from a letter of Edward Harris, Auk, 1895, p. 227, Geo. Spencer Morris.[7]Reis im Innern Nord-Amerika. 2 Vols. Coblentz, 1839-1841.[8]Having access only to a reprint of this rare work in which the ornithological matter is largely deleted, I am indebted to Mr. Otto Widmann for this extract which he translated from the original publication.[9]Travels in the Interior of America in the Years 1809, 1810, & 1811 &c. By J. Bradbury. Liverpool, 1817.[10]Audubon and His Journals. By Maria R. Audubon. With Zoölogical and other Notes by Elliott Coues. 2 Vols. N. Y., 1900.[11]The Migration of North American Sparrows. Compiled by Prof. W. W. Cooke, chiefly from data in the Biological Survey. Bird Lore, 1913, p. 301.[12]The Status of the Harris’s Sparrow in Wisconsin and Neighboring States. By Alvin R. Cahn. Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. XIII, No. 2, pp. 102-108. Also in numerous lists and field notes published in ‘The Auk,’ ‘Wilson Bull.’ and the other bird journals.[13]The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture. By Sylvester A. Judd. Bull. Biol. Surv. No. 15, 1901.[14]Bird Records from Great Slave Lake Region. By E. T. Seton. The Auk, 1908, p. 72.[15]Biological Investigation of Hudson Bay Region. By E. A. Preble. N. A. Fauna No. 22. Washington, 1901.[16]Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Vol. XIX, 1867, p. 49.[17]My thanks are due to the following friends who made it possible for me to study crow skins from parts of the State not covered by my own collection; L. A. Adams, A. H. Felger, J. D. Figgins, F. C. Lincoln, E. R. Warren, Witmer Stone, and to my various friends for permitting me to quote them in the body of this paper.[18]Nichols, J. T., American Naturalist. September, 1916; pp. 565-574.[19]Nichols, J. T., Auk. Jan. 1912; pp. 44-48.[20]Taylor, Walter P. Univ. of Cal. pub. Zoölogy, Vol. 12, no. 15, March, 1916.[21]Riverside Nat. Hist., Vol. IV, pp. 8, 9.[22]Cf. Faxon, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. XL, 1911., pp. 57-78.[23]Cf. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th Ser., Vol. II, Pt. II, 1918, p. 88.[24]Published by permission of the Geological Survey, Ottawa, Ont.[25]Ridgway’s Color Standards and Nomenclature. 1912.[26]For the three previous lists see, ‘The Auk,’ XXXIII, October, 1916, pp. 425-431; XXXIV, April, 1917, pp. 198-205; XXXV, April, 1918, pp. 200-217.[27]Additions to the A. O. U. Check-List, the Sixteenth Supplement, and the First, Second, and Third Annual Lists, are marked with a dagger (†).[28]Eliminations of forms already in the A. O. U. Check-List, the Sixteenth Supplement, the First, Second or Third Annual Lists, are designated by a star (★).[29]The writer does not sympathize with the increasing tendency to elevate subgenera (which are often based largely on color characters) to genera, unless diagnostic structural characters are also indicated. A well-marked and useful subgenus may represent a questionablegenus.[30]‘The Auk,’ I, No. 3, July, 1884, p. 236.[31]Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, p. 734 (type by monotypy,Totanus brevipesVieillot).[32]Birds of Australia, III, part 3, 1913, p. 206.[33]It is interesting in this connection to note that Ridgway (Bird N. and Mid. Amer., II, p. 101) rejectsP. erythromelœnaSalv. 1868 because ofP. erythromelasVieill. 1819 but does not alter the latter!—Ed.[34]Auk, Vol. 36, No. 1, Jan., 1919, pp. 101-102.[35]Auk, Vol. 35, No. 4, Oct., 1918, p. 476.[36]The Game Birds of California. Contributions from the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy. By Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant and Tracy Irwin Storer. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1918. Large 8vo., pp. i-x + 1-642, 16 colored plates and 94 text figures. Price cloth $6.00 net.[37]The Birds of Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews. Vol. VII, Part IV, December 19, 1918, pp. 321-384.[38]Contribution a l’Etude des Cris et Chant des Oiseux dans ses Rapports avec la Musique. par M. F. de Fenis. Bull. Institut General Psychologique July-December, 1917, pp. 87-130. Paris, at the Office of the Society, 143 Boulevard St. Michel.[39]Description of a New Race of the Western Gull. By Jonathan Dwight, M. D. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 32, pp. 11-13. February 14, 1919.[40]Food Habits of the Mallard Ducks of the United States. By W. L. McAtee, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 720, pp. 1-35 and one plate. December 23, 1918.[41]Journal Washington Acad. Sci., Vol. VIII, No. 11, pp. 375-376, June 4, 1918.[42]Birds of the Panama Canal Zone, with Special Reference to a Collection Made by Mr. Lindsey L. Jewel. By Witmer Stone. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences Philadelphia, 1918, pp. 239-280, November 30, 1918.[43]Notes on the Osteology of the Young of the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus cristatus) and other Points on its Morphology. By R. W. Shufeldt. Jour. of Morphology, Vol. 31, No. 3, December, 1918, pp. 599-606, plates 1-4.[44]Two New Genera and eight New Birds from Celebes. By J. H. Riley. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 31, pp. 155-159, December 30, 1918.[45]Mutanda Ornithologica V. By Harry C. Oberholser. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 32, pp. 7-8, February 14, 1919.[46]Birds of Lewiston-Auburn and Vicinity, by Carrie Ella Miller. With an Introduction by Professor J. Y. Stanton. Lewiston Journal Co., Lewiston, Maine [Spring, 1918], pp. 1-80 and two portraits of Prof. Stanton. Paper cover 50 cts., cloth $1.[47]A New Race of the Black-throated Wood Warbler. By Outram Bangs. Proc. N. E. Zool. Club., Vol. VI, pp. 93-94, October 31, 1918.[48]Notes on the Species and Subspecies ofPæcitonittaEyton. By Outram Bangs.Ibid., pp. 87-89. October 31, 1918.[49]A New Genus of Caprimulgidæ. By Outram Bangs.Ibid., pp. 91-92. October 31, 1918.[50]Notes on South American Short-eared Owls. By Outram Bangs.Ibid., pp. 95-98. February 8, 1919.[51]The Races ofDendroica vitellinaCory. By Outram Bangs. Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Vol. LXII, No. 11, pp. 493-495. January, 1919.[52]Blackman, M. W. and Stage, Harry H. Tech. Publ. No. 10, N. Y. State College of Forestry, May, 1918, pp. 16-17.[53]Brooks, L. E. Bull. 730, U. S. Dept. Agr., Dec. 24, 1918, p. 27.[54]Gossard, H. A. and King, J. L., Bull. 329, Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta. Sept., 1918, p. 70.[55]Bull. Univ. Kans. Vol. 18, No. 1, Oct., 1917, pp. 301-302, Wellhouse, Walter H.[56]Agr. Gaz. Can. Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1918, pp. 449-454.

Footnotes:

[1]‘Upon the Tree-Tops’, 3, 1897.

[2]Mr. A. A. Saunders advises me that so far as he is aware this is the only record of nesting of the Horned Grebe in Montana, although he has found two previous records of occurrence of the species in the state.

[3]A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, by Thomas Nuttall. Second edition of the volume on Land Birds. Boston, 1840.

[4]Narrative of a Journey Across The Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c. With a Scientific Appendix. By John K. Townsend. Philadelphia, 1839.

[5]An unbiased account of Audubon’s efforts to secure these specimens is given in Chapter XXXI, Vol. 2, of Dr. Herrick’s recent historical study ‘Audubon The Naturalist.’ Further light on the subject may be found in a letter from Audubon to Harris under date of Oct. 26. 1837, published in the Auk, Vol. XX, p. 370, by S. N. Rhoads. Audubon has left a full account of his activities at this time in the Introduction to Vol. 4 of the ‘Ornithological Biography.’

[6]Notes from a letter of Edward Harris, Auk, 1895, p. 227, Geo. Spencer Morris.

[7]Reis im Innern Nord-Amerika. 2 Vols. Coblentz, 1839-1841.

[8]Having access only to a reprint of this rare work in which the ornithological matter is largely deleted, I am indebted to Mr. Otto Widmann for this extract which he translated from the original publication.

[9]Travels in the Interior of America in the Years 1809, 1810, & 1811 &c. By J. Bradbury. Liverpool, 1817.

[10]Audubon and His Journals. By Maria R. Audubon. With Zoölogical and other Notes by Elliott Coues. 2 Vols. N. Y., 1900.

[11]The Migration of North American Sparrows. Compiled by Prof. W. W. Cooke, chiefly from data in the Biological Survey. Bird Lore, 1913, p. 301.

[12]The Status of the Harris’s Sparrow in Wisconsin and Neighboring States. By Alvin R. Cahn. Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. XIII, No. 2, pp. 102-108. Also in numerous lists and field notes published in ‘The Auk,’ ‘Wilson Bull.’ and the other bird journals.

[13]The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture. By Sylvester A. Judd. Bull. Biol. Surv. No. 15, 1901.

[14]Bird Records from Great Slave Lake Region. By E. T. Seton. The Auk, 1908, p. 72.

[15]Biological Investigation of Hudson Bay Region. By E. A. Preble. N. A. Fauna No. 22. Washington, 1901.

[16]Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Vol. XIX, 1867, p. 49.

[17]My thanks are due to the following friends who made it possible for me to study crow skins from parts of the State not covered by my own collection; L. A. Adams, A. H. Felger, J. D. Figgins, F. C. Lincoln, E. R. Warren, Witmer Stone, and to my various friends for permitting me to quote them in the body of this paper.

[18]Nichols, J. T., American Naturalist. September, 1916; pp. 565-574.

[19]Nichols, J. T., Auk. Jan. 1912; pp. 44-48.

[20]Taylor, Walter P. Univ. of Cal. pub. Zoölogy, Vol. 12, no. 15, March, 1916.

[21]Riverside Nat. Hist., Vol. IV, pp. 8, 9.

[22]Cf. Faxon, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. XL, 1911., pp. 57-78.

[23]Cf. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th Ser., Vol. II, Pt. II, 1918, p. 88.

[24]Published by permission of the Geological Survey, Ottawa, Ont.

[25]Ridgway’s Color Standards and Nomenclature. 1912.

[26]For the three previous lists see, ‘The Auk,’ XXXIII, October, 1916, pp. 425-431; XXXIV, April, 1917, pp. 198-205; XXXV, April, 1918, pp. 200-217.

[27]Additions to the A. O. U. Check-List, the Sixteenth Supplement, and the First, Second, and Third Annual Lists, are marked with a dagger (†).

[28]Eliminations of forms already in the A. O. U. Check-List, the Sixteenth Supplement, the First, Second or Third Annual Lists, are designated by a star (★).

[29]The writer does not sympathize with the increasing tendency to elevate subgenera (which are often based largely on color characters) to genera, unless diagnostic structural characters are also indicated. A well-marked and useful subgenus may represent a questionablegenus.

[30]‘The Auk,’ I, No. 3, July, 1884, p. 236.

[31]Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, p. 734 (type by monotypy,Totanus brevipesVieillot).

[32]Birds of Australia, III, part 3, 1913, p. 206.

[33]It is interesting in this connection to note that Ridgway (Bird N. and Mid. Amer., II, p. 101) rejectsP. erythromelœnaSalv. 1868 because ofP. erythromelasVieill. 1819 but does not alter the latter!—Ed.

[34]Auk, Vol. 36, No. 1, Jan., 1919, pp. 101-102.

[35]Auk, Vol. 35, No. 4, Oct., 1918, p. 476.

[36]The Game Birds of California. Contributions from the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy. By Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant and Tracy Irwin Storer. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1918. Large 8vo., pp. i-x + 1-642, 16 colored plates and 94 text figures. Price cloth $6.00 net.

[37]The Birds of Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews. Vol. VII, Part IV, December 19, 1918, pp. 321-384.

[38]Contribution a l’Etude des Cris et Chant des Oiseux dans ses Rapports avec la Musique. par M. F. de Fenis. Bull. Institut General Psychologique July-December, 1917, pp. 87-130. Paris, at the Office of the Society, 143 Boulevard St. Michel.

[39]Description of a New Race of the Western Gull. By Jonathan Dwight, M. D. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 32, pp. 11-13. February 14, 1919.

[40]Food Habits of the Mallard Ducks of the United States. By W. L. McAtee, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 720, pp. 1-35 and one plate. December 23, 1918.

[41]Journal Washington Acad. Sci., Vol. VIII, No. 11, pp. 375-376, June 4, 1918.

[42]Birds of the Panama Canal Zone, with Special Reference to a Collection Made by Mr. Lindsey L. Jewel. By Witmer Stone. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences Philadelphia, 1918, pp. 239-280, November 30, 1918.

[43]Notes on the Osteology of the Young of the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus cristatus) and other Points on its Morphology. By R. W. Shufeldt. Jour. of Morphology, Vol. 31, No. 3, December, 1918, pp. 599-606, plates 1-4.

[44]Two New Genera and eight New Birds from Celebes. By J. H. Riley. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 31, pp. 155-159, December 30, 1918.

[45]Mutanda Ornithologica V. By Harry C. Oberholser. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 32, pp. 7-8, February 14, 1919.

[46]Birds of Lewiston-Auburn and Vicinity, by Carrie Ella Miller. With an Introduction by Professor J. Y. Stanton. Lewiston Journal Co., Lewiston, Maine [Spring, 1918], pp. 1-80 and two portraits of Prof. Stanton. Paper cover 50 cts., cloth $1.

[47]A New Race of the Black-throated Wood Warbler. By Outram Bangs. Proc. N. E. Zool. Club., Vol. VI, pp. 93-94, October 31, 1918.

[48]Notes on the Species and Subspecies ofPæcitonittaEyton. By Outram Bangs.Ibid., pp. 87-89. October 31, 1918.

[49]A New Genus of Caprimulgidæ. By Outram Bangs.Ibid., pp. 91-92. October 31, 1918.

[50]Notes on South American Short-eared Owls. By Outram Bangs.Ibid., pp. 95-98. February 8, 1919.

[51]The Races ofDendroica vitellinaCory. By Outram Bangs. Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Vol. LXII, No. 11, pp. 493-495. January, 1919.

[52]Blackman, M. W. and Stage, Harry H. Tech. Publ. No. 10, N. Y. State College of Forestry, May, 1918, pp. 16-17.

[53]Brooks, L. E. Bull. 730, U. S. Dept. Agr., Dec. 24, 1918, p. 27.

[54]Gossard, H. A. and King, J. L., Bull. 329, Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta. Sept., 1918, p. 70.

[55]Bull. Univ. Kans. Vol. 18, No. 1, Oct., 1917, pp. 301-302, Wellhouse, Walter H.

[56]Agr. Gaz. Can. Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1918, pp. 449-454.

Transcriber's Notes:The cover image is in the public domain.The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphsTypographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.

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The cover image is in the public domain.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs

Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.

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