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other two species omitted from the list of Professor Lantz were intro- 

 duced on the most excellent authority of Dr. T, M. Brewer. 



4. I note the omission from the "Bibliography of Kansas Birds," 

 ( 1 ) of a list of forty additions to the Catalogue of the Birds of Kan- 

 sas in the June, 1872, number of the Kansas Educational Journal ; 

 ( 2 ) "The Relation of Birds to Horticulture," an address delivered by 

 the author of this paper at the tenth annual meeting of the Kansas 

 State Horticultural Society, at Emporia, and published in volume XI 

 of the transactions of that society, pages 65-75. 



5. In reviewing the second edition of my Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Kansas, October, 1872, Professor Lantz erroneously names Larus 

 argentatus smiihsonianus as a first record, whereas that species was 

 given in my first edition. He also states that of the 282 species and 

 races on the list only 270 are valid. Eleven of the twelve species 

 thus declared not valid ( I have not been able to find the twelfth ) are 

 as follows : Colaptes hyhridus ( which occurs abundantly all over 

 Kansas), Contopus richardsonii, Empidonax flaviventris, Helmin- 

 thophaga chrysoptera, Eremophila cormita, Poospiza bilineata, 

 Num.enius horealis, Porzana jamaicensis, Alias ohscura, Sterna 

 wilsoni, Tringa alpina. It is pleasing to note that six of the spe- 

 cies thus rejected as not "valid" have been restored in Professor 

 Lantz's list, and have, therefore, in his judgment, become valid. Of 

 the rejected species, Anas ohscura,, the Black Duck, is certainly valid, 

 for I shot a specimen of it in 1871 and fully identified the species. 

 Eremophila cornuta is valid, for it appears under a different name in 

 Professor Lantz's list; and Ilelminthophaga chrysoptera, introduced 

 upon Professor Baird's authority, ought to be valid, from the high 

 standing of the authority elsewhere recognized by Professor Lantz. 

 The inclusion of three not "valid" species, Numenius horealis, Por- 

 zana jamaicensis, and Tringa alpina, was due to errors of Mr. J. A. 

 Allen, rather than of myself, as Professor Lantz himself has stated. 



6. In noticing my list of additions to the Catalogue of Kansas 

 Birds, published in the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sci- 

 ence, volume VI, page 38, Professor Lantz omits the English Sparrow, 

 of which I gave the first published record, and which is most certainly 

 a very ubiquitous Kansas bird. 



7. In commenting upon Col. N. S. Goss's Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Kansas, first edition, 1883, Professor Lantz omits to mention his 

 first record in that catalogue of Querquedula cyanoptera. 



In reference to the second section of Professor Lantz's Review of 

 Kansas Ornithology, entitled "An Historical List of the Birds of 

 Kansas," I make the following comments : 



