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The Road-Runner in Kansas

1893; Oxford University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/4067836

1938-4254

Vernon L. Kellogg,

American Literature and Culture

specimen was sent to Mr. Ridgway for examination, and was identified by him.The birdis at present mounted and in the collection of the Canadian Institute, Toronto.In noting that the two birds were shot at almost exactly the same date in each year, it would appear that their habits of migrating are very regular, and that the absence of records for other years might be due to their great rarity and their retiring habits, for they certainly are very rare visitants, and possibly, as Mr. Cross says, 'Shave wandered up here with our Ardefta exzlis."A probably parallel case is that of the capture of an Audubon's Caracara (Polyborus chertway), on the north shore of Lake Superior, not far from Port Arthur, on July 18, 1892, reported by Mr. George E. Atkinson, to the Natural History Society of Ontario; and another similar case is the taking of a Purple Gallinule (lonornzs martinica) near Toronto on April 8, 1892, reported by Dr. Brodie.On comparing the two Toronto specimens of Cory's Bittern, the markings are identical, except that in the bird of 1893 there is a patch of white feathers on each leg, which is entirely wanting in the other, and that the dark under parts of the body proper in the 1893 bird are mixed with dark chestnut, while in the other this is almost entirely wanting.Dr. Coues's description agrees with each bird, excepting in the above particulars.-HusertH. Brown, Toronto, Ontario.{Mr. Brown has been kind enough to send me the bird above referred to for examination.On comparing it with four specimens in my collection from Florida, I find that it agrees very closely with a skin taken at Lake Flirt by Capt.Menge and referred to by Mr. Scott (Auk, IX, 1892, p. 142) under the catalogue number ''11,451."The Toronto bird is a trifle the darker on the back, and the chestnut of its under parts is slightly richer, but in other respects the two specimens are almost exactly alike.-