148 The Wilson Bulletin— No. ,113 



661. Bendroica striata — Black-poll Warbler. 



" Common migrant." In my region, decidedly uncommon. 

 674. Semrus aurocajnllus — Oyen-bird. 



" Common summer resident." I have never met it, here. 

 675 and 676. " Grinnell " and " Louisiana " Water-Thrushes. 



One would be utterly disposed to discredit any merely field 

 Identifications, covering these two races of Water-Thrush. This 

 much, at least, I KNOW: The "Louisiana" Water-Thrush now 

 breeds as far north as Minneapolis, Minn.; while the Water- 

 Thrush of the North reaches that latitude some time between the 

 Urst and the tenth of August, most years. (Why not eliminate 

 the utterly meaningless "Louisiana" as a designation; and sub- 

 stitute the title, "Southern" Water-Thrush?) 

 681. Geothlypis trichas — Maryland Yellow-throat. 



In the matter of the Yellow-throats there seems to me some 

 confusion, in the List sent out by the Kansas State University. 

 We should all bear in mind that Kansas is entirely out of the 

 reputed Breeding Range of the type-species; and that our bird Is 

 probably hracliidactyla. (This last word, of course, should bo 

 spelled with a Y,— Brachi/ — ). 

 684 Wilsonia citrina (lege, mitrata) — Hooded Warbler. 



"A rare summer resident." Have never met it. The same is 

 true of the Wilson Warbler. 

 687. SeptopJuiga (lege " Setophaga") , ruticilla — Redstart. 



" In summer a common resident." I have found it breeding 

 but once: 1920. 

 718. Thri/othorus ludovicianus — Carolina Wren. 



"A common resident." Common, enough, in Coffey county. 

 Some nine specimens seen in Marshall county, these fifteen years. 

 719c. Thryomanes tewicki cryptus — Texas Bewick Wren. 



"A common migrant in southwestern Kansas." I found this 

 exquisite singer breeding to a fairly common degree in Barber 

 and Comanche counties. 

 722. Nannus Memalis — ^Winter Wren. 



" Not uncommon in winter." I have never met it. 

 735a and 735a. (These, of course, should have been, respectively, 

 735 and 735a; with the former " Black-capped " and the latter, 

 "Long-tailed," Chickadees.) One of the biological anomalies ex- 

 tant lies in the fact that both the species and the sub-species, 

 named, should occasionally breed, side by side. 

 757. Hylocichla aliciCB — Gray-cheeked Thrush. 

 758a. Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni — Olive-backed Thrush. 



These two undoubtedly co-migrate, both spring and autumn: 

 and they pass us in mighty flocks. Though familiar with both, T 

 should not presume to think of trying to differentiate them, in the 



