Biological Papers. 209 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF KANSAS BIRDS. 



By F. H. Snow. University of Kansas, Lawrence. 



TN the spring of 1905, from April 27 to May 9, Mr. Edward R. 

 ^ Warren collected birds and mammals at Monon, in Baca county, 

 Colorado, which lies immediately west of Stanton county, Kansas. 

 An annotated list of these birds was published by Mr. Warren in 

 TTie Co7idor of January, 1906. Monon is a post-office station 

 which appears on the official railroad map of Kansas of 1901, about 

 one-half mile east of the Colorado line. For some reason Mr. 

 Johnston-, the postmaster, moved his residence just across the state 

 line and took the post-office with him; so that Monon, formerly on 

 the western edge of Kansas, is now on the eastern edge of Colo- 

 rado, hardly half a mile from the state line. 



Among the birds taken by Mr. Warren were eight species not 

 up to this time recorded as Kansas species but which seem to me 

 to be properly entitled to a place on the Kansas list. Some of 

 these species were taken in a small grove of cottonwood trees, the 

 western portion of which lies in Colorado and the eastern portion 

 in Kansas. 



The remarks within the quotation marks in the following list 

 are from Mr. Warren's article in The Condor: 



The eight species which I consider entitled to a place in the 

 Kansas avifauna are as follows : 



I. The Scaled Partridge {Gallipepla squamator Vig.) 

 Previously recorded from north to central and western Texas, New 

 Mexico, and southern Arizona. ( See the A. O. U. Check-list of 

 North American Birds.) "This species has made its appearance 

 at Monon within the last fourteen years. They are gradually work- 

 ing their way into Kansas. Professor Cooke, in his Second Ap- 

 pendix to the Birds of Colorado, speaks of what he calls a queer 

 state of afiPairs regarding the occurrence of this species in Colorado, 

 and notes that at first it was supposed to be very rare, and then it 

 was found to be common in the cedars, and at the time of the pub- 

 lication of this appendix the birds had found their way to the 

 Arkansas river at Rocky Ford. My observations show that they 

 are common in the cedars, and that they are still working east." 



II. The Spurred Towhee {Pipilo maculaUts megalonyx 

 Baird). Previously recorded from the Rocky Mountain region of 



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