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in his Birds of the Northwest, made this form synonymous with 

 Passercidus savanna. Three of these four species, however, were 

 subsequently restored to the list by Colonel Goss. 



With the exception of a reprint of my third edition in Fourth 

 Annual Report, Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1875 (which ap- 

 peared early in 1876), I published no additional complete list of the 

 birds of Kansas, having left the formal continuance of this work to 

 my friend, Col. N. S. Goss, so long as he lived. I, however, contrib- 

 uted to the Observer of Nature, a publication of the Natural History 

 Society of the University of Kansas, to the Transactions of the Kansas 

 Academy of Science, to the Auk, and to the Bulletin of the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club, the following ten species and one variety : 

 Neocorys spraguei, Melanerpes torquatus, Nyctiardea violacea, 

 Plegadis guarauna, Xerna sahinei, Passer domesticus, Icteria virens 

 var. longicauda, Anhinga anhinga, ^chmophorus occidentalis, 

 Plcicorvus Golumbianus, and Somateria v-nigra. 



Thus, all together, the author of this paper, during the last third of 

 the nineteenth century, had catalogued 305 species and 9 varieties of 

 Kansas birds, or a total of 311 numbers or entries. 



Up to the year 1878 no other citizen of Kansas had published any 

 facts regarding the birds of Kansas. In that year Col. N. S. Goss be- 

 gan his notes upon this subject in an article on the ''Breeding of the 

 Duck Hawk in Trees," in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological 

 Club. On July 25, 1879, he wrote me that he had in his collection 

 151 species of Kansas birds, of which he sent me a full list. In the 

 same year he made his first addition to the list of Kansas birds — 

 Bonaparte's Gull — as recorded in the publication just cited. He 

 continued to increase our knowledge of the bird fauna of Kansas 

 until he had added thirty-one species and races to the list.* The 

 first edition of his Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas, published in 

 1883, contains 320 species and varieties. This catalogue omitted six 

 species contained in my third edition, namely : Helminthophaga 

 chrysoptera, Dendroica G(jerulescens, Gallinula galeata, ^gialitis 

 melodus, Poospiza hilineata, Empidonax flaviventris. These omit- 

 ted species had been included in my oyfw catalogues on the authority 

 of Professor Baird and Doctor Brewer as having been actually taken in 



♦The thirty-one species added to the Kansas Catalogue by Colonel Goss are the follow- 

 ing: Larus californicue, Larus Philadelphia, Fregata aquita, Anas fulvigula maculosa, 

 Querquedula cyanoptera, Tantalus loculator, Grus canadensis, Porzana noveboracensis, 

 Porzana jamaicensis, Phalaropus lobatus, Tringa alpina pacifica, iEgialitis nivosa, Colinus 

 virginianus texanus, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, Buteo borealis kriderii. Bubo virginianus 

 subarcticus, Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis, Pheenoptilus nuttalli nitidus, Contopus richard- 

 sonii, Otocoris alpestris arenicola, Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus, Ammodramus 

 caudacutns nelsoni, Zonotrichia leucophrys intermedia, Cyanospiza ciris, Vireo atricapillus, 

 Dendroica auduboni, Dendroica vigorsi, Wilsonia canadensis, Anthus spraguei, Hylocichla 

 aliciae, and Merula migratoria propinqua. 



