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from nivalis. Though the measurements are well up into those given for 

 the latter in most of our manuals Dr. Bishop says they come within those 

 of hyperborea as illustrated in his series. With this evidence we have no 

 hesitancy in recording this specimen as Chen hyperborea. 



The status of the two forms in the Middle West seems to be but little 

 understood and exact information as to their occurrence and distinctive 

 features is difficult to get. From all we can gather C . h. nivalis appears 

 to be essentially a bird of the Atlantic Coast, and if it does occur in this 

 section it is only as a straggler. From all the inquiries we have made it 

 is evident that there is much to be learned in regard to these allied forms 

 and that a closer and more careful study of them will overthrow many 

 of the published ideas on the subject. The present specimens of nivalis 

 from the Middle West should be subjected to a more careful study to 

 settle these points. 



Measurements of Specirm ns. 



St. Clair Flat bird, 

 Point Pelee bird. 



P. A. Tavehxek and B. H. Swales, Detroit, Mich. 



The Yellow-crowned Night Heron near Toronto. — While engaged, 

 last year, in naming and arranging the collection of Canadian birds at the 

 Provincial Museum in this city, I found an immature Night Heron, which 

 proved on examination to be a young "Yellow-crowned" (Nycticorax vio- 

 laceus). Mr. John Maughan, Jr., who mounted the specimen, has kindly 

 looked up its record, and finds that it was taken on August 15, 1898, at 

 his father's farm near the Woodbine, Toronto. This is, I think, the first 

 time that the bird has been taken in Ontario, though there are one or two 

 records of its appearance in eastern Canada. — J. B. Williams, Toronto, 

 Ont. 



The Red Phalarope {Crymophilus juliearius), a new Bird for the Kan- 

 sas List. — A young female Red Phalarope was killed at Lake View, five 

 miles northwest of Lawrence, Kansas, November 5, 1905, by E. E. Brown, 

 of the University of Kansas. The bird was flushed from grass and weeds 

 that grew in shallow water. It was the only bird of the kind seen, and, 

 so far as I know, is the first one ever observed in the State of Kansas. As 

 the Red Phalarope is a maritime bird, breeding on the shores of northern 

 bodies of salt water, and spending most of its time on the ocean, its ap- 

 pearance in Kansas was unlooked for. The one taken must, for the pres- 

 ent at least, be looked upon as a straggler. It may have been carried out 

 of its usual course by a storm, or may have fallen in company with other 

 birds that go far inland. — L. L. Dvche, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 

 Kan. 



