Excerpt from Index to the Bulletin of the Nutall Ornithological Club, Volumes I-XVII 1884-1900: And to Its Continuation, the Auk, Volumes I-XVII 1884-1900 The entire eight volumes (1876-1883) of the 'Bulletin' and seventeen volumes (1884-1900) of its continuation, 'The Auk, ' published by the Nuttall Ornithological Club and the American Ornithologists' Union respectively, are here indexed. The material was gathered by a committee and elaborated by the editor, who has introduced features which, it is hoped, will add to the simplicity and general usefulness of an index that, in a measure, is a guide to a large part of the ornithological literature of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Primarily, authors, localities, genera, synonyms and miscellaneous items are combined in a strictly alphabetical index; secondarily, all references are discriminated, classified and arranged under the primary headings and each indicated by the year and the page of the volume containing it. A fuller explanation of the details of arrangement is as follows: 1. Authors. Titles of papers are in chronological order and in condensed form. Reviews and notices are indicated by the abbreviation '(rev.), ' which is used alone when the author is reviewed, and by the additional word 'see' prefacing the paragraph when the author is reviewer. Authors' names occurring in 'Minor Ornithological Publications' are indexed only under localities. 2. Localities. Names of authors in alphabetical order are placed under each. 3. Genera. Species in alphabetical order are indexed under their respective genera, subspecies or races being, for indexing convenience, treated like species and the middle term of the trinomial dropped. Under species, the page references are arranged by states and countries in alphabetical order, and, set off by a dash, at the end of the localities are additional categories in which are put references to matters other than distribution. In the endeavor to bring all references to the same genus, species or subspecies under one name, a simple system of key lettering has been devised to obviate possible confusion. Each key letter corresponds to a name in parenthesis after the genus or species, and this name is the one which will be found on the page cited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.