Transcriber's Note:

Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The following inconsistencies were noted and retained:

• subterminal and sub-terminal
• College Yard and College-yard
• Jer falcon and Jerfalcon
• foreneck and fore-neck
• acknowledgement and acknowledgment
• Hackmatack, Hackmetack, hackmitack
• Piercey and Piercy
• gray and grey
• Magdalene, Magdeleine, Magdaleine Islands
• Pittsburg and Pittsburgh
• Schuylkil and Schuylkill
• vermilion and vermillion
• grouse and grous
• aerial and ærial
• teasing and teazing
• sunrise and sun-rise
• characterised, characterized
• Huckleberry and Huckle-berry
• cupshaped and cup-shaped
• Bunting and Buntling
• pokeweed and poke-weed
• Red-wing and Redwing
• Charleston and Charlestown
• Linnæan and Linnean
• north-eastern and northeastern
• dog wood and dog-wood.

The following are possible errors, but retained:

• befal
• racoon
• persimons
• musquitoes
• tarpauling
• mollasses
• Carribbean
• tipt
• capt
• Chesapeak
• cruize
• chuse
• begrimmed
• Marratees
• pacan.

In the entries for the Rosa Rubiginosa and Fringilla Zonotrichia, the question marks are as printed.

In the entry for the Cardinal Grosbeak, the author says, "I haverepresented a pair of these beautiful birds on a branch of theWild Olive." but the following entry is for the Wild Almond.

In the entry for the Pinnated Grous, a page number is missing.

In the entry for the Great American Shrike, the volume number for Amer. Ornith. is missing.

Headings are missing for a number of the plant sections.

The Errata on page 580 have been corrected in the text.

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