LIST OI“ WORKS TO WHICH REFERENCE IS MOST FREQUENTLY MADE IN THIS VOLUME.

The Auk, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Editor, J. A. Allen; Associate Editor. Frank )I. Chapman. Published for the American Ornithologists’ Union. New York, [35 Pine Street]: II. S. Foster.

As the official organ of the American Ornithologists’ Union The Auk is the leading ornithological journal of this country. Volumes I to VIII. 1876—33. were published as the Bulletin of the Nuttall Or- nithological (,‘lub (Cambridge. Mass). the present name being adopted upon the founding of the Union. Each volume of The Auk contains about four hundred octavo pages and four colored plates; price per volume, $3; per number, 75 cents.

BAIRD, S. E, BREWER, T. )I.. and Rinowav, R. A History of North American Birds. . . . Land Birds [Vols.I to III]. Illustrated by sixty-four colored plates and five hundred and ninety-three wood- cuts. Boston: Little. Brown & Company. 3 vols. 4to, 1874. Vol. I. Turd{die—Frz'ngi/Iz'dw. pp. 1—596: Vol. II. Fringillidw—Picz'dal, pp. 1— 590; Vol. III, Sfrz‘g/irIw—Perdz'rz'dm, pp. 1—560. (Issued also with un- colored plates.) Water Birds [Vols 1 and II]. Published as Vols. X11 and XIII of the Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge). Issued in continuation of the publications of the Geo- logical Survey of California. Boston: Little. Brown & Company. 2 vols. 4t0, numerous woodcuts. mostly colored. 1884. Vol. I, Ardeidw— Amman], pp. 1—537; Vol. II, Anafz'nw—Alcz‘dm, pp. 1—552.

BHXDIRE. CHARLEs. Life Histories of North American Birds, with Special Reference to their Breeding.r Habits and Eggs. With twelve. lithographic plates. 4t’o. pp. i—viii: 1—414. \Vashington. 1892. Pub- lished as Vol. XXVIII of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowl- edge. and as Special Bulletin No. 1 of the United States National Museum.

The authority upon the groups of which it, treats.

Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Editor, J. A. Allen. Associate Editors. S. l“. Baird 41:”)