A PRELIMINARY CATALOG OF THE BIRDS OF 

 MISSOURI* 



OTTO WIDMANN. 

 I. INTRODUCTION. 



The need of a list of the birds of Missouri has become more and 

 more apparent as the popularization of Nature Study has made 

 progress during the last few years. Nearly all the northern 

 states have published for many years lists and revised lists, but 

 this is the first attempt in our state. It is based chiefly on 

 personal observations made during the last thirty years. Other 

 sources of information of which I was able to avail myself are 

 comparatively few and very little has ever been published. To 

 those gentlemen who were kind enough to favor me with their 

 notes I would here express my thanks. They are: Mr. Vernon 

 Bailey of Washington, D. C., who visited Stone Co. in 1892 for a 

 short time; Mr. Roger N. Baldwin of St. Louis; Mr. James New- 

 ton Baskett of Mexico, Mo., the author of the Story of the Birds; 

 Mr. John A. Bryant of Kansas City; Mr. B. F. Bush of Courtney, 

 Mo.; Mr. Edmonde Samuel Currier of Keokuk, la., who kept 

 very good records of the birds of his vicinity including parts of 

 Clark Co., Mo., for more than twelve years prior to his removal to 

 Oregon in 1903; Dr. Aug. F. Eimbeck and his brother, Mr. 

 Charles L. Eimbeck, of New Haven, Mo., the owners of fine col- 

 lections of mounted birds made in Warren and Franklin Co. 

 during the last forty years; Mr. Ben True Gault of Glen Ellyn, 

 111., who has twice collected in parts of southern Missouri, mainly 

 in Dunklin and Reynolds Co. ; Mr. Julius Hurter, Sr., of St. Louis, 

 whose collection of mounted birds of the neighborhood of St. 

 Louis is now in Washington University; Mr. John D. Kas- 

 tendieck of Billings, Christian Co., the owner of a large and fine 

 collection of mounted birds taken in his vicinity during the last 

 forty years; Mr. Adolf Lange of Leaven worth, Kan., whose collec- 

 tion of birds contains specimens taken on the Missouri side ; Mr. 



* Presented to The Academy of Science of St. Louis, May 21, 1906. 



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