138 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



Since the third edition of the A. 0. U. check list has been 

 published, the entire collection of birds in the University of 

 Kansas has been gone over by Miss Arta Briggs, and nomen- 

 clature brought up to date and the subspecies of the Kansas 

 birds carefully worked down. Twenty-seven species and sub- 

 species were found that had not been recorded in Doctor 

 Snow's Catalogue of Kansas Birds. The collection of birds in 

 the University of Kansas Museum consists of 1519 mounted 

 Jairds, and 7500 bird skins; comprising in all 722 species and 

 subspecies. The greater part of these birds were collected in 

 Kansas, yet there are birds of other states and countries in the 

 collection. There are about 1100 skins from Yucatan, in- 

 cluding one type (Formicarius pallidus lencolsema) . 



The study of Kansas birds, while not having been taken up 

 by the government surveys, has been the subject of consid- 

 erable work. Doctor Snow was the first scientist in the field. 

 He began his study of Kansas birds upon his arrival at the 

 University in 1866, and continued his interest until his death, 

 September 20, 1908. He published his first edition of the 

 Birds of Kansas in April of 1872, in the Kansas Educational 

 Journal. He reported 259 species and varieties. In July of 

 1872 he published an amended list, containing 277 species and 

 varieties, in the Western Guide of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. 

 In October of the same year he issued a third edition, con- 

 taining 282 species and varieties. In 1875 he contributed a 

 fourth edition to the Kansas Academy of Science, with 302 

 birds li.sted. His fifth and last appeared in the May of 1903 

 edition of the Kansas Academy of Science, and contained 342 

 birds. In November of the same year he added three species 

 that he had already listed, but had omitted from his last list. 

 They were the Road Runner (Geococcyx calif ornianus) , Black- 

 bellied Plover (Squatarola squatarola) , and the Black-throated 

 Green Warbler (Dendroica viren^}. In December, 1904, he 

 added the Parasitic Jaejer {Stercorarius parasiticus). White- 

 winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera) , and the Grove-billed Ani 

 (Crotophaga suleirostris) . In his fifth edition was listed the 

 Logger-headed Shrike {Lanius ludovicianus ludovicianus) , 

 the southern form that does not inhabit Kansas ; the Oregon 

 Junco (Junco hijemalis oreganus) , a bird of the West; and the 

 Long-billed Marsh Wren (Telmatodytes palustris pahistris) 

 of the East. As no evidence could be found that these birds 



