Transcriber’s Notes
Reading edition
Silently corrected a few typos.
Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.
Left, unresolved, the confusion between “Brown-headed Finch” and “Western Swamp Sparrow”.
This attribution, with minor orthographic variations, appears on all plates:
Drawn on Stone by Wm. E. Hitchcock Geo. L. White, del. Lithd. printed and Cold. by J. T. Bowen, Philada.