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I4 THE CONDOR I VOL. V 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 i?69 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: Fringillid?e, 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.