HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF KANSAS. 



The following chapter is compiled from that great 

 work, " History of the Birds of Kansas," by Col. INT. S. 

 Goss. 



The publishers have made it possible in this number 

 of the Twentieth Century Classics to give to the teachers 

 and bird students of Kansas a history of fifty-one of 

 our commoner birds, representing the different orders. 



Colonel Goss gave many years of his life to the study 

 of the habits of birds, not only in Kansas, but in various 

 parts of E'orth America. He has accurately and in a 

 charming manner brought their life histories before us, 

 and it is with the hope of giving a portion of his monu- 

 mental work a wider circulation among all lovers of our 

 birds that this compilation is made. It is also with the 

 thought of offering some slight assistance in prepara- 

 tion for the study of these types so happily presented by 

 him that the preceding brief introductory chapters have 



been written. 



I.— BLUEBIRD. 



Sialia sialis (Linn.). 

 An abundant resident in the eastern part of the State ; 

 common to the middle; retiring in winter to the thickets 

 in the deep ravines and along the streams ; a rare summer 



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