--Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public
domain in the country of publication.
--Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and
dialect unchanged.
--Added section headings for bird families to allow linking entries in
the table of contents.
--Removed “Nesting Site of the Tawny Creeper (Half-tone)” from the list
of plates, since it is a photograph.
--In the text versions, consistently used spaced dashes - - - to
indicate the length of pauses between notes.