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Abundant remains of lesser dwellings were on every side for a considerable dis- 

 tance around, and broken pottery very abundant. I exhumed one perfect skeleton, 

 incased in dry adobe earth and covered with large, shallow, earthen vessels. The 

 cranium would compare favorably with any European, and every tooth was perfect. 

 The right arm had been broken, and united at an angle. I regretted my inability to 

 bring this specimen with me for some of our State institutions. 



The motive which decided the location of this pueblo was quite apparent. It 

 was built near the point of a tongue of land at the junction of two fertile valleys, 

 each of which were at the mouth of a large arroya, whose branches gathered the 

 waters which fell in the high mesa in the rainy season, and poured them over the 

 valleys at their mouths, where they sank into the loose, sandy earth, affording natural 

 irrigation. Forty acres of corn were growing on this favored spot, planted by the 

 Navajoes. I noticed no such stone as those used in the large buildings I have de- 

 scribed, appear above-ground in the vicinity. The builders seem to have exhausted 

 the supply. No names or inscriptions were found upon the rocks on this trip, and 

 none found in the vicinity of the ruins. The scrubby timber growing in and about the 

 ruins did not differ in appearance or age from that growing generally in the country. 

 The only entrance to this large building was by a door at the northeast corner. The 

 building faced southeast, as did the one at San Mateo. 



Neither of the ruins I have described is marked in Wheeler's survey of the 

 pueblo ruins of New Mexico, and the Indians and Mexicans stated they had never 

 been visited by Americans to their knowledge. I saw numbers of lesser ruins in 

 that section of the country. Pottery was scattered everywhere, even to the tops of 

 the highest mountains. I conclude that the large buildings I have described are not 

 of very ancient date — probably were built and occupied at the time of the Spanish 

 conquest; but the ruins found by digging in the ground around them disclose the 

 fact that other buildings preceded them which may be as old as man's occupation of 

 this continent. 



ADDITIONS TO THE CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF KANSAS. 



BY N. S. GOSS, TOPEKA. 



The following observations have been made, and notes gathered, since the publi- 

 cation. May 1, 1886, of the Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. 



PoDiLTMBUs PODiCEPS. ( Linn.). Pied-bill Grebe. June 8, 1886, 1 found the birds 

 breeding in a pond in Meade county. I shot a young bird about two-thirds grown, 

 saw several others, and caught a glimpse in the rushes of an old bird, followed by 

 little chicks not more than a day or two old. 



Phalabopus teicolob. (Vieill.). Wilson's Phalarope. June 8, 1886, I found 

 three pairs of the birds breeding on marshy grounds bordering a slough or pond of 

 Crooked creek, Meade county, and I therefore enter the bird as an occasional sum- 

 mer resident in western Kansas; during migration, quite common throughout the 

 State; nests on the ground, usually on hummocks, quite deeply excavated, and lined 

 with leaves from the old dead grasses; eggs, three or four — usually four — ground 

 color, cream to ashy drab, rather thickly but irregularly blotched with varying 

 shades of brown to black. The female is larger and brighter in color than the male, 

 but from limited observations of the birds I am led to think certain writers are mis- 

 taken in reporting that the females arrive first and do all the courting, but leave the 

 work of nest-making, incubating, and rearing of the young to the males. I have 

 never been so fortunate as to find either of the birds upon the nest; but certainly 



