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Title
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Nebraska Ornithologists' Union Letters
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Date
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1903
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Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union
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Description
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letters
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NDER S. Keyser,
723 sourm riren avnecr.
TCHISON, KANSAS.
€ gs dan, 22, 1903.
Prof. L. Bruner, &
Lincoln, Nebr. »
My Dear Sir:
In correspondence with Prof. Wells W.
Cooke, of Washington city, D. B., I am referred to mm
you relative to making an expedition to central smer—
ica for purposes of bird study. In the first place, I ‘
desire to say that I am no collector, but simply a
student of birds in the field and a writer on their
habits. This you will note by the enclosed circulars
descriptive of my books. :
However, it would afford me mich pleasure to be
able to join an expedition to central America if one
of the kind is to be formed. I recognize the value of
scientific collecting for purposes of accuracy. How-
ever, my general idea would be to spend a year in the
country named, studying the birds witn the field-glass,
and writing up their habits, ete., she articles to be
published in a book something like my "Birds of the
Rockies." No popular book has yet been issued on the
avi-fauna of central America, and I believe that such
@ volume would prove of peculiar interest. In all my
work I desire to be scientifically accurate, and hence
would appreciate being connected with 2 scientific ex-
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