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1905 J 



The Chuck-will's-widow in Kansas. — 1 note that on page 17 of Prof. 

 F. H. Snow's Catalogue, ' Birds of Kansas,' he reports the Chuck-will's- 

 widow [Antrostomus carolinensis) as an accidental visitor to the State of 

 Kansas. I wish to add a few notes on this interesting species, whereby it 

 can be easily placed as a summer resident in restricted localities along the 

 southern border of the State. My notes were taken during the middle of 

 May, 1902, in the vicinity of Cedarvale, Chautauqua County, located six 

 and one half miles north of the Indian Territory line, in the heart of the 

 Flint Hills. 



About 5.00 p. m., May 22, I heard my first Chuck-will's-widow singing 

 in a small copse on Bird Creek, in the Osage Nation, seven miles below 

 the State line. My brother, who was with me at the time, advised me 

 that the Chuck-will's-widows were rather sparingly distributed along the 

 Big Caney Valley, near Cedarvale. He also informed me that previous, 

 in June, 1901, he flushed a parent bird from its young, in a thicket, near 

 town. I believe the statement can be accepted as a substantial fact, as 

 Whip-poor-wills, so he informed me, do not summer there, and during 

 my entire stay of two weeks, none were noted, but Chuck-will's-widows I 

 met with occasionally in the thickets along the Caney River, in the 

 State. 



About dusk, on the evening of May 24, and for several ensuing 

 evenings, I heard three or four Chuck-will's-widows singing in the thick- 

 ets near the town of Cedarvale, Kansas. 



The fact that the specimen that Prof. Snow speaks of, was secured in 

 the middle of June, is, in my opinion, a warrant to believe it other than 

 an accidental specimen. — W. S. Colvin. Osawatomt'e, Kans. 



The Raven in Southern New Hampshire: A Comment. — Apropos 

 of my Monadnock Raven-record, published in ' The Auk,' for October, 

 1904 (p. 491), Mr. John E. Thayer write; me that a yearling Raven escaped 

 from his aviary at Lancaster, Mass., less than forty miles southeast of 

 Monadnock, on May 28, 1903, and disappeared after loitering about Lan- 

 caster for almost a week. Probably, as Mr. Thayer suggests, it was this 

 bird that appeared on Monadnock on July 4. At all events, the likelihood 

 that such was the case robs my record of all value. — Gerald H. Thayer, 

 Monadnock, JV. H. 



The Blue Jay and other Eastern Birds at Wray, Yuma County, 

 Colorado. — During a few days' collecting (May 17-22, 1904) at Wray, 

 Yuma Co., Colo., in company with Mr. Wm. C. Ferril, curator of the 

 Colorado State Historical and Natural History Society, a number of 

 Eastern species whose Colorado range is little known, were secured for 

 the State museum. 



Most notable of these was a female Blue Jay ( Cyanocitta cristata) — 

 shot by the writer May 21 near a corral about a mile from town — which 

 I believe is the first one taken in the State. However, to Mr. W. E. 



