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Excerpt from A First Book Upon the Birds of Oregon and Washington: A Pocket Guide and Pupil's Assistant in a Study of Most of the Land Birds and a Few of the Water Birds of These States Rogers States
When I came to Oregon in the spring Of 1899 from the North Atlantic States, I was greatly delighted at the strange and beautiful songs of some of the birds which, from the morning Of my arrival, greeted my ear. Afterward, as I set about studying and naming these new songsters, I encountered an unaccustomed difficulty. There are numerous short, simple and helpful books for eastern North America, by the aid of which a resident of that section may begin to know the birds of his own locality. But I found, upon ih quiry, that there were none especially for this part of the United States. The only helps were in the large scientific works of Ridgway, Goues, and others, covering the whole or large parts of the United States -and these were to be had only in a public library, and when in hand were not easy of use. I have, therefore, made slow headway in the study of the birds of Oregon.
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