Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistent and unusual or archaic spelling, use of accents and diacriticals, hyphenation and capitalisation have been retained, except as mentioned below.
Depending on the hard- and software used and their settings used to read this text, not all elements may display as intended.
Page 7, List of Illustrations: the portrait of the author is not the frontispiece, and is not included in this edition of the book.
Page 45, "a single red-eye speck": should probably read "a single red eye-speck".
Page 73, "unutterly unable": as printed in the source document.
Page 99, Line Below Shows Natural Size: based on the size of the physical book, this would make the insect’s natural size around 27 mm (just over 1″).
Page 317/318, paragraph starting "Returning to the philology ...": a closing quote mark is missing.
Page 464/465, paragraph starting "That there is a distinction ...": a closing quote mark is missing.
Changes made
Illustrations have been moved out of text paragraphs.
Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
Lists of illustrations: illustration numbers have been added.
Page 44: "quiet unable" changed to "quite unable".
Page 62: "plants not natives to this country" changed to "plants not native to this country".
Page 245: PANDION HALIÆTUS changed to Pandion haliætus for consistency.
Page 264: caption "Red-eyed Vireo’s Two-Storied Nest With Cow-bird’s egg beneath" added cf. list of full-page plates.