2 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



John S. Marley of Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. Walter Mills of Webster 

 Groves, Mo.; Mr. H. Nehrling, the author of "Die Nord-Ameri- 

 kanische Vogelwelt" and "Our Birds of Song and Beauty," who 

 lived at Freistatt near Pierce City, Lawrence Co., from October 

 1882 to April 1887; Mr. Edgar M.Parker of Montgomery City, 

 Mo.; Mr. Otho C. Poling of Quincy, 111.; Mr. Wm. E. Praeger, 

 who, when living at Keokuk, la., often visited Missouri soil on 

 his ornithological excursions; Mr. F. C. Pellett of Salem, Mo.; 

 Mr. C. W. Prier of Appleton City, Mo.; Dr. G. C. Rinker of Union- 

 ville; Mr. Walter Giles Savage of Monteer, Shannon Co., formerly 

 of Jasper, Jasper Co.; Mr. Frank Schwarz of St. Louis; Mr. Philo 

 W. Smith, Jr. of St. Louis, an ardent collector of eggs for many 

 years in different parts of the state, bringing together one of the 

 most complete collections of North American birds' eggs in the 

 United States; Mr. A. F. Smithson of Warrensburg, Mo.; Mr. 

 B. M. Stigall of Kansas City; Mr. Chas. W. Tindall of Indepen- 

 dence, Mo.; Mr. Sidney S. Wilson of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mr. Julius 

 T. Volkman of Webster Groves, Mo. ; Mr. E. Seymour Woodruff, 

 who visitd Shannon Co. from March 10 to May 16 and Grandin, 

 Carter Co., from May 16 to June 7, 1907, and very kindly sub- 

 mitted all his notes, containing new and valuable records, for use 

 in this list; Mr. Chas. K. Worthen of Warsaw, 111., who sent me 

 interesting notes on birds taken on the Mississippi River or so 

 near the state line that they must be regarded as worthy of a 

 place in our list. I am also indebted to the gentlemen of the 

 Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, for the loan of the schedules containing the reports 

 on bird migration in Missouri from 1884 to 1905. They com- 

 prise the work of thirty-six observers scattered through nearly as 

 many counties and varying from notes on a few birds in a single 

 season to full reports on a number of species and a long series of 

 years, chiefly for spring, but some for spring and fall migration. 



II. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The first local list ever made in the state is that of Dr. P. 

 R. Hoy, published in his Journal of an Exploration of Western 

 Missouri in 1854 in the nineteenth Annual Report of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for 1864. He enumerates 156 species. 



Occasional mention of birds of the lower Missouri River is 

 found among the observations of Max Prinz zu Wied in his 

 " Reise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 " 



