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Excerpt from Annual Report, Nebraska, State Board of Agriculture: For the Year 1903 In 1896, Prof. Bruner published his list entitled Some Notes on Nebraska Birds. As a working basis for the study of the ornithology of the state it has proven invaluable and it has also been greatly in demand by people not ornithologists, who desired to know something about our birds. That edition was exhausted some time ago and its author has been frequently, urged to publish another. However, the organization of the Nebraska Ornithologists Union and the development of ornithology in the University has led to such a rapid increase in our knowledge in the past five years that it seemed that any publication would soon become out of date, and so no one ventured to undertake the task. It is under these conditions that the opportunity has been offered, through the kindness of Ex-Governor Furnas, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and an enthusiastic member of the Union, to prepare something on the birds of the state. It seemed too good an opportunity to be lost, and yet, under the circumstances, the authors of this contribution feel that it can only be considered, as its title states, as a preliminary review. It should be understood, nevertheless, preliminary in one sense as it iS; that it has been prepared with the greatest care, and is believed to represent exactly the state of our knowledge at the present day. Every species has been carefully considered, the specimens available examined, its occurrence in surrounding states studied, the records in Bruners list thoroughly canvassed, as well as all data which have accumulated since, and the whole reduced to such statements as indicate clearly the limits of our knowledge in regard to the form under consideration. All specimens about which there could be any doubt were sent to authorities east for exact determination. Those species that have been previously reported from Nebraska but the right of which to a place in our fauna is questioned or denied have been introduced, but in brackets. There have also been added under the phrase extralimital those species which ma possibly be found in the state in the future. This introduction of extralimital forms and their inclusion in the synopses has been thought desirable for the reason that many of them are almost sure to be found sooner or later, and this calling attention to them may result in their earlier detection and addition to our list. The aim has been to prepare a work which should not only reflect the present state of our knowledge, but at the same time be a new basis for future work. For the same reason all species which are known definitely to have bred within our limits are marked with an asterisk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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