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14. Icteria virens longicauda. Long-tailed Chat. — A summer resi- 

 dent in the western part of the State ; not uncommon. In habits and actions 

 it resembles the Yellow-breasted Chat, but its note and song are slightly 

 different. The birds were reported by Prof. F. H. Snow, in Transactions 

 of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. VI, p. 38, as "Taken along the 

 Smoky Hill River, in Western Kansas by S. W. Williston, in May, 1877"; 

 but by oversight omitted from my first Catalogue. Attention was immedi- 

 ately called to the same (see Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 

 V^ol. VIII, p. -127). June 2, 1885, I shot two of these birds on Crooked 

 Creek, in Meade County, and saw several others. 



15. Thryothorus bewicki bairdi. Texan Bewick Wren. — Resident; 

 not uncommon in Southwestern Kansas. Nests in deserted Woodpecker 

 holes, hollow logs, or any nook it may fancy; nest composed of sticks, 

 roots, straws, and grasses, and lined with fur and a few downj^ feathers; 

 quite bulky, generally filling the space, but in no case, I think, roofed 

 over. Measurements of five eggs, taken at Corpus Christi, Texas, May 9, 

 18S2 : .63 X .50; .63 X .50; .63 X. 50; .63 X .49; .62 X .49. Eggs white, 

 speckled with light and dark shades of reddish brown, thickest around the 

 larger end. ' The bird was entered in my first Catalogue as T. bewicki. 



16. Merula migratoria propinqua. Western Robin. — See Auk, I, 

 Jan. 1884, p. 100, 



The following species have been found breeding in Kansas since the 

 publication of my Catalogue. 



1. Podilymbus podiceps. Pied-billed Grebe. 



2. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. Black Tern. 



3. Sterna antillarum. Lea.st Tern. 



4. Spatula clypeata. Shoveller. 



5. Gallinula galeata. Florida Gallinule. 



6. Porzana noveboracensis. Little Yellow Rail. 



7. Rallus virginianus. Virginia Rail. , 



8. Aquila chrysaetos. Golden Eagle. 



9. Pica pica hudsonica. American Magpie. 



10. Passerina ciris. Nonpareil. 



11. Ammodramus caudacutus nelsoni. Nelson's Sharp-tailed 

 Sparrow. 



12. Vireo atricapillus. Black-capped Vireo. 



13. Icteria virens longicauda. Long-tailed Chat. 



14. Troglodytes aedon parkmani. Western House Wren. 



15. Thryothorus bewicki bairdi. Texan Bewick's Wren. 



THIRD MEETING OF THE AMERICx\N ORNITHOLO- 

 GISTS' UNION. 



The third meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union was 

 held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York 



