The Birds of Indiana: With Illustrations of Many of the Species (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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At the request of the Secretary of the Indiana Horticultural Society, Mr. C. M. Hobbs, last fall, I presrnted at the meeting in December. 1891, some remarks upon the bird* of Indiana. At the meeting Mr. Hobbs and his successor, the present Secretary, Mr. W. II. Ragan, requested me to prepare a list of the birds of the Stale, together with brief noted concerning the species mentioned, to be published instead of the notes presented to the meeting, the edition of the volume of the meeting of 1879, containing Dr. A. W. Brayton's "Catalogue of the Birds of Indiana," having been exhausted by reason of the great demand for the work, which far exceeded that for any other volume of the Society's " Transactions." After consenting to undertake th« present paper I *»«, through the courtesy of Mr**rs. Kites iSt Lauriat, of Boston, Mas*.-ihe publishers of Cones' Key to North American Birds - enabled to secure, for the purpose of illustrating this work, such cuts as I desired tiat were in their possession. The U. S. Department of Agriculture, through Dr. C Hart Merrinm, Chief of the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, was also kind enough to furnish a cut of the English Sparrow.

Iu the preparation of this paper I have had available the notes of my own observations, chiefly in the foullieaalern part of the Stale, covering the greater part of fourteen years; also, the material which has been put into my hands as curator of the Department of Ornithology of the Indiana Academy of Science. After beginning my owo investigations and carrying them on independently for a year, I was favored with the cooperation of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, by reaaou of which I have been enabled to examine the migration reports, covering the State of Iudiana for a aeries of years. 1 have also been much favored by the assistance ao freely giv…

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