Migration Kecords op Kansas Birds 141 



"Rare as summer resident." Decidedly so: I have never met 

 with it, — in north, central or southern Kansas. 



215. Coturnicops noveboracensis — Yellow Rail. 



"A rare summer resident." This is absurd, enough. The most 

 southerly breeding record extant is for southern Minnesota; and 

 even that is rather doubtful. (The writer hereof modestly avers 

 that he is an authority on the breedings of, this Rail: having 

 studied it for fifteen years, during June, in North Dakota.) 



216. Creciscics jamaicensis — Black Rail. 



The writer once flushed a single Rail of this species from a 

 marsh in Stafford county. 

 219. Gallinula galeata — Florida Gallinule. 



(Not listed.) But it has been found breeding in Kansas, — 'Cof- 

 fey county, — June, in marshy margin of a lake : nest on a board, 

 at high water. This record now made for the first time by the 

 finder, P. B. Peabody. 

 221. Fulica americana—Coot. 



"Common summer resident" — WHERE? 



224. Steganopus tricolor — "Wilson Phalarope. 



"... female should be returning south the middle of July. ..." 

 This I consider doubtful. Few baby Phalaropes are hatched, on 

 the coulees of North Dakota, before July 20, at the earliest. And 

 since both parents, — quite contradictorily, — join in the care of the 

 young, it is most improbable that the females would desert their 

 charges before the end of July, at the earliest. 



225. Reciirvirostra americana — 'Avoset: (Advisedly so-called.) 



" Rare summer resident." One would like a word of proof of 

 this allegation. 

 251. Vetola haemastica — Hudsonian Godwit. 



"Rare migrant." Hardly. — on the whole: I once watched a 

 flock of thirty, or more, in Coffey county, one spring. 



(Under, Solitary Sandpiper: — for "full," lege Fall?) 

 258 and 258a. For "Willett" lege Willet. 

 262. Tryngites subr^ificollis — Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 



"Rare migrant." Formerly, at least, not so: I used to find 

 flocks, not a few. numbering from five to a dozen, in Coffey county, 

 spring-time, thirty years ago. 



278. Leucopolius, — '(NOT " — pholus"), — nivosns alexandrinus — 

 Snowy Plover. 



" Rare summer resident, Southwestern Kansas." But, — I found 

 the Snowy Plover abwnd-fint, in Stafford county, the first of June. 



(By the way: the above affords a horrid example of the fu- 

 tility and cumbersome result of an invariant application of the 

 Procrustean Law of Priority. Now, — "Aegialitis nivosa " was po- 

 etic, simple, meaningful, fit. But, — "Leucopolius"! — and " alex- 



