346 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
1878. Cours, Extiotr—Birds of the Colorado Valley. A Repository 
of Scientific and Popular Information concerning North Ameri- 
can Ornithology. By Elliott Coues. Part First. Passeres and 
Laniidae. Bibliographical Appendix. Washington. 1878. 
See Coues, 1874. The appendix is especially valuable. 
1879. Scorr, W. E. D.—Notes on Birds observed during the Spring 
Migration in Western Missouri.< Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club. 
Vol. IV, No. 3, July, 1879. Pp. 139-147. 
This list was made in the Warrensburg, Johnson County, Mis- 
souri, neighborhood, and contains 148 species. 
1882. Apert, Con. JAMES W.—List of Birds observed on a March 
from Fort Leavenworth, Mo., to Santa Fe, N. M., in 1846 and 
1847.<Journal of the Cincinnati Soc. of Nat. Hist., Vol. V, 
1882. 
See Abert, 1848. 
1882. Cooke, W. W.—Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley.< For- 
est and Stream. Vol. XVIII, 1882. 
Not seen. 
1883. Cooke, W. W.—Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley.< 
Forest and Stream. Vol. XIX, 1883, Nos. 15, 16, and 20. 
Not seen. 
1883-1885.—CooKkE, W. W.—Mississippi Valley Migration.<Ornitholo- 
gist and Oologist. Vol. VIII, No. 4 (April, 1883) to Vol. X, No. 
12 (December, 1885). 
Notes were contributed to this valuable series of articles by 
G. E. Stillwell, of Kansas City, Missouri. This observer is 
indicated in the text as No. 33. 
1884. Bartrp, Brewer, and Rmcoway.—The Water Birds of North 
America. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard College, XII and 
XIII. Issued in continuation of the publications of the Geo- 
logical Survey of California. Vol. I-II. Boston: Little, Brown 
& Co. 1884. 
See Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 1874. 
1884. Cookr, W. W.—Distribution and Migration of JZonotrichia 
querula.<Auk, Vol. I, No. 3, 1884, pp. 332-337. 
First atempt to define the limits of the range of Harris’s 
Sparrow. 
1885. Dycur, L. L.—The Yellow Rail (Porzana noveboracensis) in 
Kansas.<Ornith. and Oologist, Vol. 10, No. 11, 1885, p. 168. 
Reports this bird first for the state from the Lawrence re- 
gion. 
