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A female is similar^ but with little trace of the peculiar wing markingSj 
both the chestnut and black being wanting, and the speculum being 
hoary gray instead of white. Both the specimens before me are imma- 
ture ; the adults, it is presumed, will show the peculiar vermiculated ap- 
pearance of G. streperus. They resemble |the immature condition of G. 
streperus so closely that one description of the coloration would answer for 
both species ; but the G. couesi is immediately distinguished by its greatly 
inferior size, which hardly exceeds that of a teal, the different color of the 
bill and feet, and the singular discrepancy in the lamellse of the bi|l, 
which are much .smaller, and one-third more numerous. 
Habitat: Washington Island, one of the Fanning Group, situated about 
latitude 6° N. and longitude 160° W. 
I dedicate this new species to one of our most distinguished ornithol- 
ogists, Dr. Elliott Cones, U. S. A., as a slight testimonial of regard, and in 
consideration of the service which he has rendered to the science of 
ornithology. 
Meant iltterature. 
Descriptions of New Species of American Birds. — Mr. George 
N. Lawrence has recently described seven new species of birds from tropi- 
cal America. Two of these are Jays,* one of them (Cyanocitta pulchra) 
being from Ecuador and the other {Cyanocorax ortoni) from Northern Peru. 
The others f are two new species of Tanager of the genus Chlorospingus (G. 
speculiferus and C. nigrifrons), respectively from Porto Eico and Ecuador,- 
and three new species of Flycatcher (Serpophaga leucura, from Ecuador, 
Orchilus atricapillus, from Costa Eica, and Empidonax nanus, from St. Do- 
mingo). The descriptions of two of the species {Chlorospingus speculifera 
and Serpophaga leucura) are accompanied by colored figures. — J. A. A. 
Birds of Kansas. — ^ Professor F. H. Snow has recently published a 
third edition of his “Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas,” J giving an 
annotated list of 295 species. Twenty-three species and one variety have 
been added since the publication of the second edition in October, 1872 ; 
and it is believed a few others will still be added by further research. 
The list is very creditable to the zeal and energy of Professor Snow and 
* Description of a New Species of Jay of the Genus Cyanocitta; also of a sup- 
posed New Species of Cyanocorax. By George N. Lawrence. Annals of the 
Lyc. of Nat. Hist. N. Y., Vol. XI, pp. 163-166. [Published Feb. 1876.] 
t Descriptions of Five New Species of American Birds. By George N. Law- 
rence. Ibis, Sd Series, Yol. V, pp. 383-387, Plate IX, July, 1875. 
X A Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. Contributed to the Kansas Academy 
of Science. 8yo. pp. 14. November, 1875. 
