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citrea, * Helminthophila celata, * Helminthophila peregrina, * Dendroica penn- 
sylvanica, Dendroica dominica albilora, Seiurus motacilla, Geothlypis trichas 
occidentalis, * Sylvania pusilla, Anthus pennsylvanicus, Thryothorus bewickii, 
Troglodytes aedon aztecus, Cistothorus stellaris, Cistothorus palustris, Certhia 
familiaris americana, Parus atricapillus, * Regulus eS Regulus calendula, 
Turdus mustelinus, and * Turdus fuscescens. 
Nineteen of the above, marked with an asterisk, were given on the authority of 
Dr. T. M. Brewer. Several others reported on the list now under discussion were 
omitted from his latest list as evident errors and so are not here reported. 
1872. AuLEN, J. A. Ornithological Notes from the West. From Am. Natu- 
ralist, vol. VI, 1872, pp. 263-275, 342-351, 394-404. 
This is asummary of a paper which appeared in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodlogy, 
vol. III, pp. 118-183. The first part, pp. 263-275, of the May number of the 
Am. Naturalist, refers to Kansas. Nearly all the species included in the more 
formal lists in the bulletin are here given; but some mistakes occurred in the 
summary, which became the basis for continued errors in the lists of Professor 
Snow and others. Doctor Allen writes me that he did not meet with either the 
magpie or the Esquimo curlew in Kansas and that the breeding record for them 
belongs to Colorado. He also writes that he did not see the red-backed sand- 
piper and little black rail in Kansas. 
This paper in the American Naturalist contains the first record for A¢gialites 
montana, Pediocetes phasianellus campestris, Calcareus ornatus, Rynchophanes 
maccownii, Peucza cassini, Habia melanocephala, Helminthophila pinus, Hel- 
minthophila ruficapilla, Compsothlypis americana, Dendroica cerulea, and Den- 
droica blackburnia. 
1872. A[xiLen], J. A. Birds of Kansas. From Am. Naturalist, vol. VI, June, 
1872, pp. 359-360. 
Editorial review of Snow’s Birds of Kansas, Ist edition. (A reprint in pam- 
phlet form, 8vo, pp. 8.) 
1872. Auten, J. A. Notes of an Ornithological Reconnoissance in portions 
of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. From Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoology, 
vol. III, no. 6, July, 1872, pp. 113-183. Contains of interest in this connection,— 
(1). A List of Birds observed at Fort Leavenworth and Topeka in the spring of 
1871. (121 species.) 
(2). A List of Birds observed at Fort Hays, May—July, 1871. (61 species.) 
(3). A List of Birds observed in northwestern Kansas, December, 1871, and 
January, 1872. (25 species.) 
This paper adds to the Kansas list Empidonax acadicus, Dendroica discolor, 
and Geothlypis philadelphia. 
1872. A[{iien], J. A., B[REweR], T. M., and Snow, F.H. Remarks on Snow’s 
Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. From Am. Naturalist, vol. VI, July, 1872, 
pp. 482-3. 
Brewer defends the list, Allen modifies former criticisms, and Snow announces 
the addition of 45 species to the list, 21 contributed by Professor Allen, 22 by Pro- 
fessor Baird, one by both Allen and Baird, and one by E. A. Popenoe. The one 
by Popenoe, Henslow’s sparrow, was given by Baird 1858; those by Allen have 
already been given in this paper, except little black rail, red-backed sandpiper, 
and Esquimo curlew. Allen now writes that these were errors. Professor Baird’s 
contributions were based mostly on an examination of materials in the U. S. 
National Museum, and the new ones are as follows: 
Merganser serrator, Branta canadensis hutchinsii, Gallinula galeata, Tringa 
