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err in stating that when completed' this work will be the largest piece of regional systematic zoology ever done b one man. For over thirty years Mr. Ridgway's ready pen has been active, and he is the author of a long list of papers and books. Space does not permit even a complete enumeration of the longer and most important. As far back as i69 we find "Not- ices on Certain Obscurely Known Species of American Birds," and duriug the few following years many other papers appeared. In i874 "a History of North Ameri- can Birds," (Land Birds, three volumes) by Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway was pub- lished. Besides the monograph of the Raptores, Mr. Ridgway contributed much of the technical matter. Following this, his "Ornithology" of the Fortieth Parallel Explorations, appeared in i877; Nomenclature of North American Birds, 88x; A Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Illinois, I88I; Water Birds of North America, Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, i884; Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, I887; Manual of North American Birds, I887; Ornithology of Illinois, Vol. I, x89o , Vol. II, I895; The Humming Birds, x892; Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, I897; Birds of North and Middle America, I: Fringillide, i9oi , and recently (I9O2) part II of the same work. As a sympathetic painter of birds, Mr. Ridgway is too well known to need men- tion here. His work ranks with the best that has ever been done, and its character- istics include not only fidelity to nature but a certain delicacy in execution, which

renders his pictures particularly pleasing.