OF THE 



OHIO AQRIGULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



VOL. I, No. 4. TECHNICAL SERIES. JULY, 1896. 



Article XXIY. A Preliminary List of tKe 

 Birds of Wayne County, OKio. 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



INTRODUCTION. 



JTHE present catalogue is the outgrowth of a request made some time 

 * since by Prof. F. M. Webster, Entomologist of the Ohio Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, who desired the writer to prepare a report on the 

 avifauna of Wayne County, the new location of the Station. Although 

 this task was undertaken with no little hesitation, it has been the aim of 

 the author to offer a list as complete as possible, with such annotations as 

 seem to be of interest in this connection. 



That the number of species is far from exhaustive is of course un- 

 necessary to state. No one more than the writer regrets this evident in- 

 completeness, which is principally due to the comparatively short period 

 covered by the writer's observations, and to the fact that the only oppor- 

 tunities for such investigations were the leisure hours of an active busi- 

 ness life. That the present paper may serve as a basis for future observa- 

 tions is the chief excuse for its existence. With this purpose in view 

 much care has been exercised to avoid the inclusion of any but perfectly 



