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tree situated among other low trees and shrubs, and is within six or seven 

 feet of the main driveway through the Arboretum. Across the driveway 

 at this point is a spring and the beginnings of a small brook. In the 

 structure of the nest are interwoven brown leaves with upturned stems, 

 after the fashion of the Blue-winged Warblers as stated in Mr. Chapman's 

 'Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North America.' 



A number of interesting circumstances are to be noted: first, the female 

 has blackish areas on the throat and cheeks, shaped like those on a Golden- 

 wing, but has also a still blacker, narrow line extending through the eye; 

 second, a pair of Golden-winged Warblers has been known to breed in the 

 Arboretum, in the immediate vicinity of the present nest, for a number 

 of years; third, this year the Golden-wings seem to be absent. 



Of course the most intense interest centers in the expected young, and 

 it is to be fervently hoped that so accident will befall to prevent the suc- 

 cessful hatching of the eggs and rearing of the young birds. — - Helen 

 Granger, Cambridge, Mass. 



Ten Birds New to the Avifauna of Kansas. — Through the kindness of 

 my friend Dr. R. Matthews of Wichita, Kansas, I have received for the 

 Museum of the University of Kansas a mounted adult male specimen of 

 the Black-necked Stilt {Himantopus mexicanus). This specimen was 

 shot ten miles south of AVichita in 1906 by Mr. T. H. Griffith. 



Dr. Matthews has also presented to the University Museum a specimen 

 of the Red-breasted Merganser {Merganser serrator), which was shot in 

 November, 1906, by Mr. Dan Breese on his lake near Colwich, Sedgwick 

 Co., Kansas. This species was included in the early editions of my Cata- 

 logue of the Birds of Kansas on the authority of Professor S. F. Baird, 

 but was omitted from the fifth edition, which contained only those species 

 which were personally known to me as occurring in Kansas. 



I desire also to note the capture on the Kansas-Colorado line in the 

 spring of 1905, by Mr. Edward R. Warren, of the eight following species 

 new to the Kansas list: The Scaled Partridge (Callipepla squamata); 

 the Spurred Towhee {Pi-pilo maculatus megalonyx); the Green-tailed 

 Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus); Swainson's Vireo (Vireo gilvus swainsoni); 

 Virginia's Warbler (Helminthophila Virginia^); Macgillivray's Warbler 

 (Geothlypis macgillivrayi); the Sage Thrasher (Oroscoptes montanus); 

 and the Dwarf Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla aonalaschka). 



The above ten species, together with the seven species previously reported 

 to 'The Auk,' in addition to the 342 species enumerated in the fifth edition 

 of my Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas, make a total of 359 species whose 

 actual capture in Kansas has been verified by me. — J. H. Snow, University 

 of Kansas, Lawrence. 



A Kentucky Warbler near Boston, Massachusetts.— At Wellesley Hills, 

 in the forenoon of May 14, 1907, having just left the electric car and passed 

 in the rear of the stores and dwellings which front on the little village 



