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localities. A specimen of Townsend's Solitaire has been taken as far east 

 as Illinois, December 16, 1875 (Bull. N. O. C, I, 1876, p. 40), the late date 

 suggesting, as does Mr. Weber's bird, some connection between autumn 

 storms and the wafting eastward of purely accidental western visitors 

 like the one now first recorded for New York. — Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 

 M. D., New York City. 



Two Birds New to the Avifauna of Kansas. — 1. Groove-billed Ani 

 (Crotophaga sulcirostris) . A single specimen of this species was captured 

 by a farmer near Emporia, in Lyon County, about November 1, 1904. 

 It is in the collection of the Kansas State Normal School and was reported 

 to me by Prof. L. C. Wooster of that institution. This is, I think, the 

 first instance known of the occurrence of this bird north of the Lower Rio 

 Grande in Texas. 



2. Red Phalarope (Crymophilus fulicarius). A single specimen of 

 this species was shot by Edward E. Brown, assistant secretary of the Uni- 

 versity of Kansas, on November 5, 1905, at Thacher's Lake, about four 

 miles from Lawrence, in Douglas County. A small flock arose from 

 water about one foot in depth among the weeds, emitting a shrill piping 

 cry. Dr. Coues in his 'Birds of the Northwest,' says: "I introduced this 

 species, although it has not yet been found in the Missouri region, as one 

 which unquestionably occurs at times, and in order to complete an account ' 

 of the family. It is more particularly a maritime bird. . . .It is men- 

 tioned by Mr. Wheaton among the birds of Ohio, and by Mr. Ridgway 

 among those of Illinois." 



These two additions raise the number of species and varieties of Kansas 

 birds whose actual capture has been verified by me to 349. — Francis H. 

 Snow, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. 



Some More Michigan Records. — Prothonotary Warbler (Proto- 

 notaria citrca). A floating newspaper paragraph called my attention 

 to an alleged case of this bird's breeding in a letter box in the city of Battle 

 Creek this summer. On writing for further particulars, I find the report 

 well confirmed. I received an excellent description of the bird from Mrs. 

 Inez Adams, who had many opportunities for observing the bird through 

 the summer, and who forwarded the nest itself to me later. It agrees 

 perfectly with all descriptions of the nest of this species and is, of course, 

 radically different from the structure built by the Yellow Warbler, which 

 is the only bird that could possibly be mistaken for P. citrea. The letter 

 box in question was fastened to a veranda post of the residence of Mrs. 

 C. A. La Pierre, No. 35 Coldwater St., and it was by her kindness that I 

 was furnished with the following particulars, and I can do no better than 

 to quote her words. 



"About the 16th of May one of the birds came in at the back door and 

 flew through to the parlor, fluttering there against one of the large win- 



