Nebraska's Many Birds

Nebraska is distinctively the bird center of tbe United States. It contains more species than any other state in the Union, and ornithologists who have studied its feathered possessions have classified 417 distinct species that may be seen within its boundaries. Of these 225 species breed here and the remainder are migrants, who drop in on us at certaiu seasons and then pass on to their breeding grounds. The natural features of Nebraska are largely responsible for this remarkable variety of feathered popnlation. It includes a diversity of country that offers attractions for hundreds of songsters. For instance, the mocking bird and the cardinal grosbeak, which are distinctly southern birds, frequently appear in the southeastern corner of the state, and ia the west we have a large number of what are usually regarded as mountain birds, but which come down from the foothills at intervals to the kingdom of