the interest in birds and love for them, in the state, and so advancing the 

 cause of bird protection. It is not expected, however, that it will be suf- 

 ficient for the student of ornithology, who should possess beside some good 

 manual with full descriptions and figures of our birds, such as Apgar's Birds 

 of the Eastern United States, Chapman & Reed's Color Key to North 

 American Birds, or if he can afford a more expensive work, either Ridgway's 

 Manual or Coues' Key. Some day this preliminary review may be ex- 

 panded into a complete, illustrated work on Nebraska birds, but it remains 

 for the generosity of the state legislature or of some state society, interested 

 in their preservation, to say when that shall be. 



The numbers preceding each species are those of the American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union check list, and in regard to nomenclature the same list has 

 been followed implicitly; the possessive has however been omitted from the 

 common names. 



The authors desire to acknowledge the assistance received, in the way of 

 data, from various members of the Union and local bird club, whose names 

 appear in connection with the records under different species, and also to 

 recognize their indebtedness to Apgar's Birds of the Eastern United States, 

 the keys in which have formed the basis for some of the synopses here used. 



The thanks of the authors are also here extended to those of our ornitholog- 

 ical authorities who have generously determined specimens sent to them — 

 Messrs. H. C. Oberholser of the U. S. Biological Survey and Witmer Stone 

 of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



In the working over of records and material and in the comparison of 

 authorities all the authors have participated, but a large part of the clerical 

 work and of the preparation of the synopses has been done by Mr. Swenk. 



