Key to North American Birds
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Excerpt from Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species of Living and Fossil Bird at Present Known From the Continent North of the Mexican and United States Boundary A preface is indispensable in this instance, simply because I have no other opportunity of properly acknowledging the assistance I have received in preparing this work. I am particularly indebted to Mr. J. A. Allen, of Cambridge, Mass., who has diligently revised nearly all the proofsheets, and whose critical suggestions have proved invaluable. Mr. Robert Ridgway, of Illinois, has given me the benefit of his still unpublished studies of the Raptores and some other groups, besides rendering, as Mr. Allen also has, various essential services. Prof. Baird kindly offered me the use of all the illustrations of his late Review, while Prof. Agassiz generously placed at my disposal the plates accompanying Mr. Allen´s Memoir on the Birds of Florida. Several of the woodcuts have been taken from Prof. Tenney´s Manual of Zoology, with the author´s permission; and a few others have been contributed by Messrs. Lee and Shepard. With a few exceptions, the rest of the illustrations have been drawn from nature by the author, and engraved by Mr. C. A. Walker. I have spoken elsewhere of Prof. Marsh´s almost indispensable cooperation in one part of the work. While material for the greater part of the descriptions has been furnished by the author´s private cabinet, the Synopsis could hardly have been prepared without that free access to the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, of which I have been permitted to avail myself. The only word of explanation that seems to be required is with regard to the large number of genera I have admitted. I have been led into this - unnecessarily, perhaps, and certainly against my judgment - partly by my desire to disturb a current nomenclature as little as possible, and partly because it is still uncertain what value should be attached to a generic name. Among wading and swimming birds - the groups of which are, on the whole, more precisely limited than those of Insessores - I have, however, indicated what I consider to be a reasonable reduction; and on another occasion I should probably extend a like practice, if not one even more "conservative," to the remaining groups. I will only add, that I consider that several of the admitted families of Oscines will require to be merged in one. These are the Turdidæ, Saxicolidæ and Sylviidæ, if not also the Troglodytidæ, and Motacillidæ; while the same may prove true of the current Sylvicoline, Tanagrine and Fringilline groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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