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have in my collection of skins a specimen of this species taken by my 

 student, Wm. E. Moore, at the Lawrence lake, April 17, 1871. 



9. Tringa hairdii, (No. 85,) is credited to me in "1872, on 

 authority of Baird.*' In my third edition, 1875, this species is given 

 on my own authority. Two specimens were shot by myself at the 

 Lawrence lake, October 26, 1872, one along the Wakarusa river, April 

 18, 1873, by student Frank Morgan, two along the Kansas river, April 

 11, 1874, by student B. H. Barnett, and another in the same locality 

 by myself, April 17, 1874. These six specimens are in my collection 

 of bird skins, Nos. 188, 189, 203, 328, 329, and 330. 



10. Limosa hcemastica, (No. 91,) credited to me in 1872, on 

 authority of Baird, was given in my third edition, 1875, on my own 

 authority, two specimens, a male and a female, having been taken at 

 the Lawrence lake, by student B. H. Barnett, April 19, 1873. They 

 are in my collection of bird skins, Nos. 201 and 202. 



11. How can Professor Lantz be at all certain that "an upland 

 land snipe," mentioned by Wm. Kelley as having been seen during 

 his "excursion to California, etc.," was Bartramia longicauda, (No. 

 96)? Such an instance of guesswork can have no scientific value. 



12. JSfumenius horealis, (No. 101,) credited to Benson, 1874, for 

 ^' first record," was recorded by me as taken at Lawrence by my stu- 

 dent, Nelson J. Stephens, May 6, 1873. Its skin is No. 217 of my 

 collection, with a complete series of measurements. I claim this as 

 the first authentic record for this species. 



13. Professor Lantz acknowledges that the "quail" mentioned by 

 Say, 1823, may not have been Colinus virghiianus, (No. 109,) and 

 it is extremely probable that the same is true of the quail referred to 

 by Maximilian and Parkman. I claim the first authentic record for 

 this species. 



14. The same uncertainty exists concerning the identity of Say's 

 Tympanuchus americanus, (No. 305,) which may have been either 

 of the two following numbers of Professor Lantz's list. 



15. Professor Lantz should have quoted my third edition, 1875, in 

 which Ictinia tnississippiensis, (No. 121,) was given, not upon the 

 authority of Baird, but upon my own authority, from material fur- 

 nished by Prof. M. V. B. Knox, of Baker L^niversity, and Col. N. S. 

 Goss. 



16. It would have been an interesting fact for Professor Lantz to 

 record in reference to Harlan's Hawk, Buteo borealh hay'lani, (No. 

 129,) that the male specimen of this species shot at Lawrence, in 

 October, 1871, by my student. Nelson J. Stephens, is the most valuable 

 ornithological specimen in the state, being the male type of the 



