PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 
The demand for this bulletin having necessitated a new edition, 
all the former records have been verified and several new species 
for the first time recorded. Richardson’s owl and the yellow- 
headed blackbird have not hitherto been reported from our state. 
The total number of birds of which we have satisfactory state 
records is 391. 
That the check list may be of more value to bird students, the 
name of each bird known to breed, or to have bred within our 
limits has been marked with an asterisk. A few species that for- 
merly bred do not do so at present, others have been known to 
breed only in a few instances, while serveral forms breed in New 
York only in the highest parts of the Catskills and Adirondacks. 
In any given locality the breeding forms are the summer residents 
as the presence of a species during the nesting season is prima facie 
evidence that it nests. Some breeding forms may have been inad- 
vertently omitted, but of all the forms marked nesting records have 
been reported on good authority. The author will appreciate in- 
formation on the breeding of any additional species in the state. 
In the work of revision I have been materially assisted by Mr 
W. E. D. Scott, curator of ornithology in Princeton university. 
Marcus S. Farr 
New York state museum . 
26 Nov. 1900 
