V °;- 8 J VI ] General Notes. 1 87 



Girard, Jorn. Soc. Lisboa, III, 1893, 100, for a genus of Mollusks. Capt. 

 Shelley's genus may be renamed Antickromus, 1 the two species being 

 Antichromus anckitee (Bocage), and A. minutus (Haiti.)- — Chas. W. 

 Richmond, Washington, D. C. 



New and Rare Birds in Kansas. — On June 12, 1898, Mr. R. Matthews, 

 of Wichita, while enjoying an outing along the banks of the Arkansas 

 River, some miles south of the city of Wichita, captured a specimen of 

 Chuck-will's-widow, Antrostomus carolinensis. There is no doubt as to the 

 identity, which was confirmed by Prof. Snow of Lawrence, to whom the 

 specimen was submitted. This is the first record for the State, although 

 the late Col. Goss and Prof. Popenoe were both confident that they had 

 heard the notes of this bird. 2 



On August 16, 1S98, Mr. F. E. Forbes of Topeka captured a fine male 

 specimen of the Turnstone, Arenaria interpres,o\\ the Kansas River near 

 that place. The specimen was found alone and is an addition to the Kan- 

 sas list. 



About the middle of January, 1899, Prof. E. A. Popenoe of Berrytown, 

 near Topeka, shot a pair of Bohemian Waxwings [Ampelis gar ruins) 

 from a flock of four. They were in company with some Cedar Wax- 

 wings, feeding on the berries of the ordinary red cedar. These are the 

 first of these birds noted in the state for eighteen years; and there are 

 only three other authentic records. They were previously taken at Fort 

 Riley, by Dr. Hammond; at Ottawa, by Wm. Wheeler; and at Manhat- 

 tan, by the writer. — D. E. Lantz, Chapman, Kan. 



More New Birds for Colorado. — Astragalinus psaltria mexicanus. A 

 Goldfinch was shot near the city of Denver during the summer of 18S8 

 by Mr. A. T. Allen, a taxidermist. He considered the bird to be mexi- 

 canus, and judging it to be out of its ordinary summer home he preserved 

 the specimen. His identification has lately been confirmed by Prof. J. A. 

 Allen who says that the specimen is not quite typical, but much nearer 

 this form than any other. It is of course an accidental occurrence, as 

 the species belongs in southern Texas and southward. 



Branta canadensis minima. A typical specimen of this subspecies 

 was shot April 10, 1898, by Mr. John F. Campion on a small lake near 

 Loveland, Colorado. He presented it to the State Natural History 



1 'Avti and xpiojia. 



['- The head and wings of a female specimen of this species, taken at 

 Wichita, Kansas, in 1898 (exact date not stated), were received recently at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York, for identification, from 

 Prof. L. L. Dyche, of the Kansas University. This adds a second authentic 

 .record for the Chuck-wills-widow in Kansas. — J. A. Allen.] 



