PREFACE. 



The present list is intended to include all birds which have been so far 

 proven to occur in British Columbia. 



I am fully aware of its incompleteness, and very much regret much of 

 its lack of more definite information regarding the distribution of certain 

 species, and with regard to that portion of the Province in north and north- 

 eastern interior, which, I have no doubt, is a valuable field for work. 



Since the publication of the list of British Coluipbia birds in 1898 by 

 the late John Fannin, which contained 339 species and sub-species, and with 

 the information to hand, enables me to add to this 24. 



I wish to extend my thanks especially to the following constant observers 

 for more or less extended local lists, notes and specimens : — A. C. Brooks, 

 Chilliwhack, Okanagan and Cariboo ; Rev. J. H. Keen, Queen Charlotte 

 Islands and Metlakatla; Thos. Kermode, William Head Quarantine Station; 

 E. P. Venables, Vernon ; Chas. de Blois Green, Fairview and Keremeos. 



I have also obtained valuable information from the check-list published 

 by the late John Fannin. 



FRANCIS KERMODE, 



Curator Provincial Museum. 

 Victoria, B. C, August, 1904- 



