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the month. The nest is simply a depression worked out in the sand. Eggs, 
three, 1.20x.90, pale olive-drab, approaching a light clay color, with a greenish 
tint, rather evenly and thickly marked with irregularly-shaped, ragged-edged 
splashes and dots of dark or blackish brown. Colonel Goss shot two birds 
June 18, 1886, on the Kansas plains, and saw a female with two half-grown 
young. Just south of the line (in the Indian territory), he saw several of the 
birds, and startled one from a nest in the sand. In the ‘“ History of the Birds of 
Kansas,’’ Colonel Goss refers to this bird as being ‘‘ quite common [ in the limited 
part of the state above referred to.]”’ 
343. Colinus virginianus texanus. TExan Bos-wuitTe.— ‘‘ This southwest- 
ern race, as a bird of central Kansas, rests on two specimens, adult females, in 
the U.S. National Museum, collected May 29, 1864, by Dr. Elliott Coues, on the 
Republican river, in the northwestern part of the state. I have been informed 
by military men and hunters that Bob-whites were occasionally seen on the Cim- 
arron river south of Fort Dodge from 1862 to 1866. This was long before our 
birds, in following up the settlements, had reached the central portion of the 
state, and it is safe to conclude that the birds found there were of this variety 
- (tewanus); and that they reached that vicinity by following the old military trail 
north through the Indian territory for the grains scattered along the route at 
feeding and camping places. Of late years the trail has been little used, and 
as the country was without settlement, their disappearance can be accounted for 
on the ground that they have been destroyed by enemies, or, for want of food 
and shelter, could not survive the cold winters.’’ (Goss, History of the Birds of 
Kansas, p. 222.) : 
344. Picicorvus columbianus. CuARKE’s Nut-cRACKER.—‘‘An occasional 
visitant. Mr. L. L. Jewell, of Irving, kindly sent me for examination a portion 
of a skin saved from a-small bird shot August 13, 1888, by Mr. Charles Netz, near 
the south line of Marshall county.’’ (Goss, History of the Birds of Kansas, p. 386.) 
Mr. H. W. Menke saw three birds in Finney county on October 10, 1891, and on 
the day before five birds were seen at Emporia, in the eastern part of the state. 
345. Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis. House Frncu.— Five birds were 
taken out of a flock of 15 0n January 5, 1892, by Mr. H. W. Menke, in Finney 
county. The species is common in Colorado and further west. 
346. Spizella monticola ochracea. WESTERN TREE SparRow.— ‘‘ Winter 
sojourner in the western to middle portions of the state; rare or casual in the 
eastern portion. Leave about the first of April; return in October.’’ (Goss, 
History of the Birds of Kansas, p. 460.) 
347. Piranga ludoviciana. LoutstanaA TANAGER.—A male was taken by 
Mr. H. W. Menke on May 20, 1893, in Finney county. On June 1, 1893, several 
pairs were seen in a small cottonwood grove in Kearny county (adjoining Finney 
county). 
348. Dendroica ccerulescens. BLACK-THROATED BriuE WARBLER.— One 
specimen (female) taken by Mr. H. W. Menke in a deserted farm house in Finney 
county on October 17, 1891. The species belongs to the fauna of the eastern 
states. 
349. Hesperocichla nevia. Varrep THrusH.—A single specimen taken by 
Mr. H. W. Menke on October 17, 1891, in Finney county. : 
Thus, the number reached in the cataloguing of the Kansas birds is 349. 
This, however, is not the true number of valid entries, two eliminations being 
necessary (see postea). The number of species and varieties of which valid 
records of occurrence within Kansas have been made is 347. 
