Kansas was one of the first states for which a detailed book onbirds was published (N. S. Goss, "History of the Birds of Kansas,"Topeka, Kansas, 1891). Ornithological progress in Kansas in recentyears, however, has not kept pace with work in many other states.As a result, knowledge of the birds of Kansas today is not sufficientlydetailed to make possible a modern, definitive report. One purposeof this chec