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A female is similar, but with little trace of the peculiar wing markings, 

 both the chestnut and black being wanting, and the speculum being 

 hoary gray instead of white. Both the specimens before me are imma- 

 ture ; the adults, it is presumed, will show the peculiar vermiculated ap- 

 pearance of C. streperus. They resemble [the immature condition of C. 

 streperus so closely that one description of the coloration would answer for 

 both species ; but the C. couesi is immediately distinguished by its greatly 

 inferior size, which hardly exceeds that of a teal, the different color of the 

 bill and feet, and the singular discrepancy in the lamellas of the bill, 

 which are much smaller, and one-third more numerous. 



Habitat: Washington Island, one of the Fanning Group, situated about 

 latitude 6° N. and longitude 160° W. 



I dedicate this new species to one of our most distinguished ornithol- 

 ogists, Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A., as a slight testimonial of regard, and in 

 consideration of the service which he has rendered to the science of 

 ornithology. 



%ttt\xt literature. 



Descriptions of New Species of American Birds. — Mr. George 

 N. Lawrence has recently described seten new species of birds from tropi- 

 cal America. Two of these are Jays,* one of them (Cyanocitta pulchra) 

 being from Ecuador and the other (Cyanocorax ortoni) from Northern Peru. 

 The others t are two new species of Tanager of the genus Chlorosj>ingus (C. 

 speculiferus and C. nigrifrons), respectively from Porto Eico and Ecuador, 

 and three new species of Flycatcher {Serpophaga leucura, from Ecuador, 

 Orchilus atricapillus, from Costa Rica, and Empidonax nanus, from St. Do- 

 mingo). The descriptions of two of the species (Clilorospingus speculifera 

 and Serpophaga leucura) are accompanied \>j colored figures. — J. A. A. 



Birds of Kansas. — Professor F. H. Snow has recently published a 

 third edition of his " Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas," J giving an 

 annotated list of 295 species. Twenty-three species and one variety have 

 been added since the publication of the second edition in October, 1872 ; 

 and it is believed a few others will still be added by further research. 

 The list is very creditable to the zeal and energy of Professor Snow and 



* Description of a New Species of Jay of the Genus Cyanocitta; also of a sup- 

 posed New Species of Cyanocorax. By George N. Lawrence. Annals of the 

 Lye. of Nat. Hist. N. Y., Vol. XI, pp. 163-166. [Published Feb. 1876.] 



+ Descriptions of Five New Species of American Birds. By George N. Law- 

 rence. Ibis, 3d Series, Vol. V, pp. 383-387, Plate IX, July, 1875. 



X A Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. Contributed to the Kansas Academy 

 of Science. 8vo. pp. 14. November, 1875. 



