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Kansas. Two of these six species have been verified by subsequent 

 captures and the others may be similarly verified. Their retention in 

 the list of Kansas birds at that time was authorized by the excellence 

 of the authorities upon whose statement of actual captures they were 

 originally introduced. In 1886 Colonel Goss published his Revised 

 Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas, containing 335 species and races, of 

 which 175 were characterized as breeding in Kansas. 



Thus, up to the year 1899, six catalogues of the birds of Kansas 

 had been published — four by the author of this i^aper and two by 

 Col. N. S. Goss. 



In June, 1899, there appeared in the Transactions of the Kansas 

 Academy of Science, volume XVI, a "Review of Kansas Ornithology," 

 by Prof. D. E. Lantz, of Manhattan. This review comprises two sec- 

 tions : First, "The Bibliography of Kansas Birds"; second, "An His- 

 torical List of Kansas Birds." In regard to the first section of this 

 review, I make the following remarks : 



1. There is much uncertainty, and necessarily a good deal of "guess- 

 work," in regard to the determination of species and the locality of their 

 occurrence, in the case of most of the species named by Professor Lantz 

 as having been recorded to occur in Kansas up to and including William 

 Kelley's publication, in 1851, entitled "An Excursion to California 

 over the Prairies and Rocky Mountains and the Great Sierra Nevada, 

 with a stroll through the diggings and ranches of that country." 

 During the entire period of nearly fifty years included in this sec- 

 tion of the "bibliography," there was no state of Kansas or territory 

 of Kansas as yet set aside from the national domain. And yet Pro- 

 fessor Lantz states that Pike entered ''Kansas'" in 1806. He also 

 states that "no ornithological records of his trip were made, except 

 that his hunters brought in turkeys." On this meager basis. Pro- 

 fessor Lantz, in what purports to be a scientific paper, awards to 

 Maj. Z. M. Pike the credit of first publishing a record of Meleagris 

 gallopavo in- Kansas. 



2. In writing of my own Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas, first 

 edition, 1872, Professor Lantz characterizes the Kansas Etlucational 

 Journal, in which that catalogue appeared, as "a newspaper." It 

 was not a newspaper, but a monthly educational journal. 



3. He characterizes my catalogue as " a defective list of 239 species." 

 A critical examination of this list reveals the fact that all but three of 

 the 239 sjDecies are included in Prof essor Lantz's own "Historical List 

 of Kansas Birds." The three not included are Centrocerc%is uropha- 

 sianus, Poospisa hiiineata, and Enijndonaxflaviventris. The defect 

 of including the Sage Cock also applies to Goss's list of 1883 ; the 



