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or intensity of the coloration can be detected. A comparison 
of the females with Ridgway’s description of the female cani- 
caudus type leads to the conclusion that the local bird is true 
C. c. cardinalis, or is at least much closer to it than to C. c. 
canicaudus. Mr. Dix Teachenor states that his study of the 
material in the Kansas University Museum leads him to be- 
lieve that the Gray-tailed Cardinal does not range so far north 
as Douglas County, Kansas, or Jackson County, Missouri, and 
that he unhesitatingly referred the specimens in his collection, 
taken in the Lawrence neighborhood, to the eastern form. 
The Cardinal is common throughout the county and is resi- 
dent during the entire year. It nests freely in the suburbs of 
the city and is abundant in the parks and cemeteries. Its 
three or four eggs are laid in May and more than one brood is 
raised. The nest is a loose, bulky structure placed in low trees, 
bushes, briar tangles or thick vines. 
The Redbird is silent only during the time of moulting, after 
the last brood of young are out of the nest. Great numbers 
pass the severe periods of winter in the shelter of Swope Park, 
in the upper Blue Valley, along the bluffs and in the timbered 
bottoms. 
ZAMELODIA LUDOVICIANA (Linn.). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 
Common migrant; not uncommon summer resident. 
The first Rose-breasts arrive between April 19th (earliest) 
and 29th and are common during early May when the bulk of 
the migrants are present. After the middle of the month only 
the breeding birds remain. The autumn migration is notice- 
able in middle and late September. There are no October re- 
eords for this vicinity. 
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are to be found in all parts of the 
county in wooded tracts and even breed sparingly within the 
city. 
GUIRACA CAERULEA CAERULEA (Linn.). Blue Grosbeak. 
Recent and very rare summer resident. 
Prior to the summer of 1918 there were but three known in- 
stances of the occurrence of the Blue Grosbeak in this vicinity, 
and these records were not entirely satisfactory. On July 13, 
1918, a nest containing young was found in a peach orchard 
on the farm of Mrs. M. J. Morrin, just east of Swope Park. 
