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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1880 Excerpt:... ORNITHOLOGICAL FIELD NOTES, WITH FIVE ADDITIONS TO THE CINCINNATI A VIAN FA UNA. By Frank W. Langdon. Since the publication of the writer's "Revised List of Cincinnati Birds," several of the species therein given as "of probable occurrence, but not yet identified' in this vicinity, have.been taken, two of which--Tringa bairdii, and Sterna hirundo, have been already recorded by Messrs. Dury and Freeman.f Four others, namely: Cistothorus stellaris, Helminthophaga celata, Melospiza lincolni, and Tringa fuscicollis, have also been added to the list of identified species, and a fifth (Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis), entirely new to ornithology, has been discovered, a description and figure of which will be found in another part of this number. The five additions to our avian fauna herein noted, with the two already recorded by Messrs. Dury and Freeman, bring the total number of species actually identified, in this vicinity, up to 263; leaving 20 unidentified spepies, whose range includes this locality, yet to be heard from. For information of value contained in the following notes, acknowledgments are especially due to Mr. John W. Shorten, the well known taxidermist of Cincinnati, Ohio; to J. Bonsall Porter, Esq., of Glendale, Ohio; and to Messrs. Edgar R. Quick and A. VV. Butler, both of Brookville, Ind; their names accompanying their respective notes. The species are here numbered to correspond with the "Revised List of Cincinnati Birds," excepting the additions which are not numbered. 8. Mimus Polyglottus, Boie.--Mocking Bird.--A set of three eggSi taken by Mr. Joel Metcalf, near Glendale, Ohio, on June 20, 1879, is now in my collection, being the fourth instance known of the breeding of the species in this vicinity, during the past four _years. 12. Regulus...