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here seem to be of enough interest and importance to warrant 
giving them in detail. They are: 
1872. Bryant. One specimen taken. 
Dec. 29, 1889. Bush. A flock seen, one specimen taken. 
Dec. 12, 1893. Tindall. 
Nov. 10, 1899. Tindall. 
Sept. 20, 1902. Tindall. 
Oct. 25, 1902. Tindall. A small flock seen and one 
specimen taken. 
Jan. 4, 1914. Harris. One seen. 
Nov. 5, 1915. Tindall. Flock of six seen and one 
specimen taken. 
Noy. 7, 1915. Hoffmann. One seen. 
Nov. 13, 1915. Bush. Flock of five seen and one speci- 
men taken. 
Jan. 10, 1916. Bush. A small flock seen. 
Apr. 16, 1916. Hoffmann. One bird seen. 
Students should be on the lookout for this striking bird. 
Order MACROCHIRES. Goatsuckers, Swifts, ete. 
Suborder Caprimulgi. Goatsuckers, ete. 
Family Caprrmutewar. Goatsuckers, ete. 
ANTROSTOMUS CAROLINENSIS (Gmelin). Chuck-will’s-widow. 
Accidental visitant, 
: On May 3, 1918, at about dusk, a Chuck-will’s-widow flew 
mto the yard of Prof. A. E. Shirling, near Swope Park, and 
Sang several times. The bird was not over fifteen feet from 
the professor, who distinetly saw it and noted its size as it flew 
of. This is the first and only known instance of the local oe- 
currence of this bird. Its normal range in western Missouri 
does not extend much further north than from eighty to one 
hundred miles to the south of Jackson County. 
ANTROsTOMUS VOCIFERUS (Wilson). 
SErocHacis VOCIFERA VOCIFERA (Wilson). Proposed April, 
1917. Whip-poor-will. 
Common Summer resident, 
The Whip-poor-will arrives from the 15th to 19th of April 
and leaves in October. It lays its two beautifully marked eggs 
