Nebraska is distinctively the bird center of the 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 certain seasons and then pass on to their breeding-grounds.
The natural features of Nebraska are largely responsible for this
remarkable variety of feathered population. It includes a diversity
of country that offers attractions for hundreds of songsters. For
instance, the mocking-bird and the cardinal grosbeak, who are
distinctive Southern birds, frequently appear in the southern corner of
the state, and in 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 Quivera.--_Omaha Bee._