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knowledge of the capture of this species in Kansas. On the 22d of Ma}- 

 I received from Dr. R. Matthews a monnted specimen from his own col- 

 lection. It was captured at Wichita in 1896 by Mr. Ed. Goldberg. 



I am also almost ready to add to mj list the Road-runner or Chaparral 

 Cock {Geococcyx califortiicus). Additional evidence of its having been 

 " seen" is afforded by the statement of Prof. Chas. N. Gould of the Uni- 

 versity of Oklahoma, whom I met during a collecting expedition to south- 

 west Kansas in May and June of the present year. He says: ''In the 

 summer of 1894 I saw a Chaparral Cock in the canons west of Ashland, 

 Clark Co., Kansas. In 1897 Dr. Lester F. Ward and I saw this bird at 

 Belvidere, Kiowa Co., Kansas. But a single specimen was seen in each 

 instance. The one at Belvidere was seen repeatedly in the evening, 

 remaining around camp for several days." And finally, the 'Kiowa Sig- 

 nal,' published at Greensburg, Kiowa Co., Kansas, in July, 1903, gave an 

 account of the capture of a "chaparral or snake-killer" by W. H. Wilbur 

 of Kiowa township, who was said to have the bird in captivity. Letters 

 addressed both to the newspaper and to Mr. Wilbur have thus far failed 

 to elicit a reply. 



Postscript. — Since sending the above to 'The Auk ' for publication I 

 have visited the ranch of Mr. W. H. Wilbur, in the southwest corner of 

 Kiowa County, Kansas, and have secured evidence of the capture in that 

 locality of a specimen of the Road-runner {Geococcyx calif ornianiis). 

 The bird was found in the chicken yard of Mr. Wilbur one morning 

 during the last week of June, 1903. This yard is surrounded by a coarse 

 wire netting and the bird when discovered was making sti'enuous efforts 

 to find an opening for escape by running along the fence in search of 

 an opening. Mrs. Wilbur caught the bird Avith her hands and placed 

 it in a cracker box covered with an old stove grate. She fed it for two 

 weeks upon grasshoppers and other insects until, becoming weary of the 

 labor of providing its daily food, she turned it loose upon the prairie. 

 Mrs. Wilbur was with her brother, Mr. Oris Ham, when the latter shot a 

 specimen of the Road-runner on January 24, 1901, in Oklahoma, about 

 thirty-five miles south of the Kansas line. The wings and tail feathers 

 of this specimen were preserved so that the identification was entirely 

 satisfactory. The date of capture of the Kansas specimen indicates that 

 the species breeds in Kansas. 



I wish also to put on record the capture, in Kansas, of a specimen of the 

 Black-throated Green Warbler {Dendroica z'irens). I received the 

 fragmentary skin of this specimen, which has been identified by Mr. J. A. 

 Allen, from Mr. F. F. Crevecoeur of Onaga, Kansas, who states that it 

 "was shot, as near as I can lemember, in 1S90 on French Creek,- three 

 miles north of Onaga." 



The addition of the three species thus reported, the Black-bellied Plover, 

 the Road-runner, and the Black-throated Green Warbler, increases my list 

 of birds personally known by me to have been captured in Kansas, to 345 

 species and varieties. — F. H. Snow, Lawrence, A/asa. 



