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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. 

 Dee. 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. 

 Nov. 7, 1915. HoflEmann. 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 se«n. 

 Students should be on the lookout for this striking bird. 



Order MACROCHIRBS. Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc. 



Suborder Caprimulgi. Goatsuckers, etc. 



Family Capeimulgidae. Goatsuckers, etc. 



Anteostomus caeolinensis (Gmelin). Chuck-will 's-widow. 

 Accidental visitant. 



On May 3, 1918, at about dusk, a Chuck- will 's-widow flew 

 into 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 distinctly saw it and noted its size as it flew 

 off. This is the first and only known instance of the local oc- 

 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 Cotmty. 



Anteostomus vocipeeus (Wilson). 



SetochaijCis vocipeea vocifeea ("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 



