_Iowa_, 356 (Anderson, 1907).
_Kansas_, 379 (Bunker, 1913).
_Kentucky_, 228 (Garman, 1894).
_Louisiana_, 323 (Byer, Allison, Kopman, 1915).
_Maine_, 327 (Knight, 1908).
_Maryland_, 290 (Kirkwood, 1895).
_Massachusetts_, 369 (Howe and Allen, 1901).
_Michigan_, 326 (Barrows, 1912).
_Minnesota_, 304 (Hatch, 1892).
_Missouri_, 383 (Widmann, 1907).
_Nebraska_, 418 (Swenk, 1915).
_Nevada_, 250 (Hoffman, 1881).
_New Hampshire_, 283 (Allen, 1904).
_New Jersey_, 358 (Stone, 1916).

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_New Mexico_, 314 (Ford, 1911).
_New York_, 412 (Eaton, 1914).
_North Carolina_, 342 (Pearson and Brimley, '16).
_North Dakota_, 338 (Schmidt, 1904).
_Ohio_, 330 (Jones, 1916).
_Oregon_, 328 (Woodcock, 1902).
_Pennsylvania_, 300 (Warren, 1890).
_Rhode Island_, 293 (Howe and Sturtevant, 1899).
_South Carolina_, 337 (Wayne, 1910).
_Tennessee_, 223 (Rhoads, 1896).
_Texas_, 546 (Strecker, 1912).
_Utah_, 214 (Henshaw, 1874).
_Vermont_, 255 (Howe, 1902).
_Virginia_, 302 (Rives, 1890).
_Wellington_, 372 (Dawson, 1909).
_West Virginia_, 246 (Brooks, 1913).
_Wisconsin_, 357 (Kumlien and Hollister, 1903).
_Wyoming_, 288 (Knight, 1902).

For the five remaining States no list of the birds has as yet been
issued.

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_Increase of Garden and Farm Birds._--The effect of civilization on the
bird life of North America has been both pronounced and varied in
character. Ask almost any one over fifty years of age if there are as
many birds about the country as there were when he was a boy, and
invariably he will answer "No!" This reply will be made, not because
all birds have decreased in numbers, but because there has come a
change in the man's ideas and viewpoint; in short, the change is
chiefly a psychological one. The gentleman doubtless does not see the
birds as much as he did when he was a boy on a farm, or if he does,
they do not make the same impression on his mind. It is but another
example of the human tendency to regard all things as better in the
"good old times." Let us turn then from such well-meant but inaccurate
testimony, and face the facts as they exist. I have no hesitation in
saying that with many species of Finches, Warblers, Thrushes, and
Wrens, their numbers in North America have greatly increased since the
first coming of the white men to our shores.

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It is a fact well known to careful observers that the deep, unbroken
forests do not