. The birds of Ontario [microform] : being a list of birds observed in the Province of Ontario, with an account of their habits, distribution, nests, eggs, & Birds; Oiseaux. 1 Wilson's enclature, ig the ten on's work ature sug- :w species onaparte's d in 1833, 1 1838 he ve List of number of inuricana tive of the ly hitherto le informa- ds in their iherto been gh culture, h, was busy ppeared in er of birds I a colored 0 the west, ect by Mr. )ok entitled with fifty acific Rail- orm of the ent survey- from those referring to with the revised the wrison the )lete expos- ONI AKIO. ition of a
. The birds of Ontario [microform] : being a list of birds observed in the Province of Ontario, with an account of their habits, distribution, nests, eggs, & Birds; Oiseaux. 1 Wilson's enclature, ig the ten on's work ature sug- :w species onaparte's d in 1833, 1 1838 he ve List of number of inuricana tive of the ly hitherto le informa- ds in their iherto been gh culture, h, was busy ppeared in er of birds I a colored 0 the west, ect by Mr. )ok entitled with fifty acific Rail- orm of the ent survey- from those referring to with the revised the wrison the )lete expos- ONI AKIO. ition of all that was known up to that time of the birds of America, north of Mexico, and bringing up the list of described species to 744. In 1874 Dr. Coues, then a surgeon in the U. S. Army, published a check list, which included such additional species as had been added since the former date, bringing up the number to 778. In 1880 Mr. Ridgeway, in making out a catalogue of the specimens in the Smithsonian Institute, labelled as North American, found that they numbered 024, but it is thought that many were thus included which were collected beyond the limits. In 1882 Dr. Coues published a second edition of his check list, in which the number is increased to , and in his new key published in 1884, the number is reduced to 878. So the numbers stand at present, and as we do not now expect to have many new species added, any change which takes place will probably be a reduction, caused by condensing the groups, which many think are at present too much divided. Nothing of late years has happened, so well calculated to advance the interest of this subject, as the result of a meeting which was held in the Museum of Natural History, in the Central Park, New York, in September, 1883. The meeting, which was called by circular, was composed of a few of the leading amateur and profes- sional Ornithologists of North America, There were jiresent one fi-Dm Ontario, one from New Brunswick, and abo
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