BOTANY. 765 
T Wetrust that entomologists will aid in supporting this enterprise, 
and send the small pittance of 50 cents asked for a separate copy? 
Brirps or Kansas.*—The first edition of Professor Snow’s “‘ Cat- 
alogue of the Birds of Kansas” has already been noticed in these 
pages,t and some of its shortcomings briefly mentioned. We have 
now the second edition of this work, in which the deficiencies of 
= the first are fully supplied. The number of species has been 
- raised from 239 to 282, and many typographical and other errors 
amended. Few species probably now remain to be added except 
such as are accidental or casual visitors. We notice that Centro- 
cercus urophasianus has been stricken out, and that among the 
= many important additions are Garzetta candidissima, Herodias 
 egretta, and Graculus Mexicanus, not previously reported from 
eS ote oad 
‘Kansas. The latter (Graculus Mexicanus) we are informed was 
identified by Professor Baird, and forms the first known instance 
of its occurrence north of the Rio Grande. The nomenclature is 
that of the ninth volume of the Pacific Railroad Reports, and 
= hence a number of species are admitted that are not now usually 
regarded as valid. In addition to Prof. Snow’s own observations, 
he has availed himself of all the aid within his reach, and has 
thus given us a highly valuable and creditable list of the birds of 
Kansas. It forms a neatly printed pamphlet of 16 pages, and 
_has a less number of typographical errors than similar brochures 
usually have, though we find ‘‘ Hreneutes ” printed for Ereunetes, 
_“ Passarella” for Passerella, etc.—J. A. 
» BOTANY. 
FERTILIZATION or Yucca sy A Mora.— At the Dubuque meeting 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Prof. 
Riley gave an abstract of a paper which will appear in full in the 
Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Science. He briefly 
described the generic and specific characters of a little moth 
which is one of the most anomalous known to entomologists. He 
escribed how many of our flowers, such as the Asclepias 
orchids, were curiously constructed so as to be incapable of 
Caiatogue of the Birds of Kansas, contributed to the Kansas Academy 
ank H “poate pips of Natural History and Meteorology in the University ref 
‘Lawrence. Second edition, Oct., 1872. Svo. 16 pp. 25 cents. 
Nat., ey et pp. 359, 482, 483. 
