Transcriber’s Notes

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 W^m. E. Hitchcock
Geo. L. White, del. Lith^d. printed and Col^d. by J. T. Bowen, Philad^a.