Ebook: The birds of eastern North America: with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc

West Newton, Mass.: C. J. Maynard & Co, 1896. - 879 p.
The first edition of the Birds of Eastern North America has been exhausted for some time, but owing to circumstances, I have not been enabled to prepare a second edition, containing the necessary revisions and additional matter, until the present time.
Much of the original text has been preserved intact, but considerable change has been made in some of it. The main diflerence between this and the former edition, aside from repaging the entire work, beginning with the Water Birds, is in the extensive additions, not only in number of species, which are considerable, but in new matter that pertains to descriptions, habits, etc., of species already enumerated. These embody much of the results of my studies among the birds of Florida, tlie Bahamas and other of the West Indies, made during several recent expeditions, indertaken for this purpose.
During this time especial attention has been paid to Water Birds, and many facts concerning them have been noted.
I have not considered it expedient, for several reasons, to change the nomenclature, but in an appendix will be found a concordance of my names and those given in the Check List, last edition, of the American Ornithologist's Union.
The additional species and much of the new matter, will be found, as a rule, at the end of tlie orders, or in some cases at the end of families, thus although some of the new-added species and sub-species are given under their proper general headings, they are often misplaced systematically, but a reference to the index will at once reveal the absence or presence of a given species or sub-species.