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species. ( See full description of this specimen in Baird, Brewer and 

 Ridgway's A History of North American Birds — Land Birds, volume 

 III, page 293.) It is No. 192 of my collection of bird skins. This fact, 

 if known, to Professor Lantz, might have induced him to i^lace Law- 

 rence before Manhattan, where it chronologically belongs, in naming 

 the localities for the capture of this hawk. 



17. Professor Lantz omits to use my statement regarding Ar^chi- 

 Ijuteo ferruqineus, in the Ohserver of Nature for June 4, 1875, where 

 Dr. Louis Watson is quoted as having captured two specimens of 

 this species in the fall of 1874, and as having found it breeding in 

 May, 1875. The specimens are Nos. 479 and 180 of my collection of 

 skins. 



18. Falco richardsonii, (No. 141,) is credited to "Snow, 1872, on 

 the authority of Baird." This species was in my third edition, 1875, 

 on my own authority. I have twelve specimens in my skin collec- 

 tion, prepared by my own hands from fresh material received from Dr. 

 Louis Watson, the captures having been made on nine different dates, 

 from October 6 to November 9, 1875, and a thirteenth specimen, taken 

 at Lawrence, October 27, 1875, by my student, Wm. H. Challis, No. 

 600 of my collection. I have in my note-book a full record of the 

 measurements of these thirteen birds, taken before skinning. 



19. I do not recognize Geococcyx calif ornicus, the Road-runner, as 

 a Kansas bird, and I cannot comprehend how Professor Lantz can 

 admit the inadequate evidence of its having been "seen" in south- 

 west Kansas, and yet reject Anas ohscura upon my own statement of 

 personal capture and identification. 



20. Sphyrapicus varius, (No. 161,) is credited to "Snow, 1872, on 

 authority of Baird." It is given in my third edition, 1875, on my 

 own authority, from a capture made by E. A. Popenoe, of Topeka. 



21. Tyrannus verticalis, (No. 178,) is credited to "Snow, in 1872, 

 on authority of Brewer." It was given in my third edition, 1875, on 

 my own authority, from three specimens received from Doctor Watson, 

 of Ellis, which are Nos. 508, 509 and 511 of my collection of skins. 



22. Contopus horealis, (No. 182.) credited to "Snow, 1872, on au- 

 thority of Brewer," was given in my third edition, 1875, on my own 

 authority, from fresh specimens received from Doctor Watson, of 

 Ellis, May 22 and September 14, 1875. The skins are Nos. 502 and 

 542 of my skin collection. 



23. Otocoris alpestris leucolema, ( No. 188,) was included in Colonel 

 Goss's first catalogue, 1883, but was omitted from his revised cata- 

 logue. It would have been impartial treatment of Colonel Goss and 

 myself if Professor Lantz had remarked in this case, as in the case of 



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