922 Scientific News. [September, 
and flora of a State which, together with Indian territory, holds 
the key to a more definite knowledge of the inter-relationship of 
four great faunal regions.” 
~ To the list of Kansas mammals as given by Professor M. V. B. 
the north-eastern part of the State. Both are Southern species 
and their occurrence in Kansas is a matter of some surprise. It 
has also added to the State fauna the Georgian bat, and is able to 
record, through the favor of Professor Snow, the little shrew, 
Blarina parvula, from Western Kansas. It would call attention 
also to the long lost black-footed ferret, or prairie dog-hunter, of 
Western Kansas, whose rediscovery was recorded a few years 
since by Dr. Coues, and would urge our collectors and hunters 
to keep vigilant watch for it with a view to ascertaining its distri- 
bution and abundance in the State. Does the distribution of this 
ferret coincide with that of the prairie-dog? The survey is also 
relations of this and other species of the animals of Kansas are 
greatly desired. For some of our species the historical material 
must be gathered at once, or it will never be fully known. Wi 
birds, as already intimated, the survey is not concerned. 
In reptiles, perhaps the most interesting discovery is’ that of a 
second species of green snake, the slender green snake, Cyclophis 
' estivus, an austroriparian species, collected by Colonel N. S. 
Goss, at Neosho falls. Kansas is doubtless the northern limit 
of this bright-hued, active Southern serpent. i 
Of fishes the survey has made considerable collections, mainly 
of smaller forms. Three species new to science have already 
been described in its reports, and the pretty little zebra-fish of the 
Rio Grande river, known until recently by Girard’s imperfect 
description only, has been re-discovered and fully described from 
Dr. L. Watson. The zebra- 
in two days’ collecting last August. 
, parasitic on the buffalo-fish, etc., proves to 
