REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 359 
reflects great credit upon the gentlemen under whose supervision 
the paper was printed, that without the opportunity of revision by 
the author, and from manuscript closely written on both sides of 
thin paper, as we incidentally learn, so very few errors should have 
occurred. 
Brrps or Kansas.*—The present list, “though based upon the 
personal observations of the author during a residence of six 
years in Kansas,” does not purport to be a complete catalogue of 
the birds of that State. It embraces the names of two hundred 
and thirty-nine species, and contains short notes respecting the 
relative abundance and special haunts of most of them. Whilst 
of considerable value as a faunal list, it abounds in errors to such 
an extent as greatly to impair its usefulness. Among the one 
hundred species marked with an asterisk to show that they are 
“known to breed in Kansas” we find Regulus calendula, Dendræca 
coronata, Pinicola “canadensis,” Passerella iliaca, and Ægialitis 
semipalmatus, whose southern limit in the breeding season is well | 
known to be many hundred miles north of Kansas. On the other 
hand such characteristic and abundant summer species as Calamo- 
spiza bicolor and Coturniculus passerinus, and nearly twenty others 
now well known to breed in Kansas, are without the asterisk. 
Among the species one naturally expects to see in a list of the 
pretensions of the present, we look in vain for Dendreca cerulea, 
Vireo Noveboracensis, Plectrophanes ornatus, P. Maccownii, Guiraca 
melanocephala, Spizella pallida, Peuceea ‘Cassinti,” Antrostomus 
uttalli, Pedicecetes phasianellus and Ægialitis montanus, all of 
Which are more or less common, whilst some of them are among 
: the most characteristic species of the middle and western portions 
of the state, Among the western species mentioned are Falco 
Polyagrus, Colaptes “hybridus,” Poospiza bilineata, Passerella schis- 
tacea, unco Oregonus, Icterus Bullockii, and Centrocercus wro- 
Phasianus, all of which may occur of course as stragglers, though 
Mot often seen in the latitude of Kansas, east of the Roc 
Mountains. Perhaps for Centrocercus urophasianus the writer 
_ meant to have written Pediccetes phasianellus, and for Ægi- 
- hon, aie epee seem sehen ans eet a newer ee 
o pik URYTHEME; p. 45, line 31, for Sees arei. r 
PG read 
pe Pay. Pityrus read E ; 25, for TH 
ea, N ‘par. Tityrus: p. 50,1. 25, : 
panan 12, for Endamus read Eudamus ; p. 59,1. 15, for Palatka read Pilatka; p. 62, 1 2, 
$60, YAS read EUDAMUS; p. 62, 1. 9, for Buleuta read Bulenta. 
' of the Birds of Kansas : now. Professor of Natural 
Š Hist i or . By Fran : 
` and Meteorology in the University of Kansas, Topeka,’1872. PP 
; $ 
