Front matter
Reading edition
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 have represented a pair of these beautiful birds on a branch of the Wild 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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