INTRODUCTION. 
The following list of birds contains those species which have 
been noted in the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri. Most of 
the birds listed have been seen in Jackson County, Missouri, but 
the ground covered by the list includes Clay and Platte Coun- 
ties, Missouri, and Johnson County, Kansas. The extreme limits 
of the region covered by the notes used in the preparation of the 
list are Warrensburg, Missouri, Johnson County, forty-seven 
miles (as the Crow flies) from Kansas City, Corning, Missouri, 
Holt County, ninety-four miles from Kansas City, and Douglas 
County, Kansas, twenty-eight miles from Kansas City. 
Kansas City itself is on the Missouri River, at its junction 
with the Kansas, or Kaw River, in Lat. 39, Long. 94 30’. The 
Missouri River makes a sharp turn to the east here. It is bor- 
dered on the south by bluffs of loess and cliffs of limestone 
which rise to a height of more than 250 feet above the river. 
On the north, in Clay County, there is a broad flood plain, bor- 
dered at some distance from the river by cliffs. These alterna- 
tions of bluff, cliff, sand bar and flood plain are characteristic 
of the Missouri River throughout its course in the region above 
defined. Where small streams find their way to the river, a 
‘‘draw’’ winds for a short distance back of the bluffs. The 
bluffs and the ‘‘draws’’ are richly clothed with pawpaw and 
red bud, wild grape and black maple, the haunts of the Car- 
dinal and the Carolina Wren. 
Where small rivers, such as the Big and Little Blue, have 
cut a valley to the Missouri from the higher prairies, they dupli- 
cate in miniature the features characteristic of the great river; 
narrow bottom lands fringe one side, and cliffs the other, al- | 
ternating as the streams wind. The rich soil along the rivers 
is shaded by great elms, tall hackberries and ‘‘Cochi’’ beans 
(Kentucky Coffee trees) ; the base of the cliffs are covered with 
bladder-nut and cornel. Here the Kentucky Warbler, the Tufted 
Tit and the Red-bellied Woodpecker are characteristic birds. 
Above the cliffs there are thin-soiled shelves of limestone, 
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