1899. Aug 22. than the average. The other day while on the beach I saw an immense number of large sea birds flying southward in one long column. The column was quite dense and I watched it for an hour. During all this while thousands of birds were pouring past me following the coastline and when I came away it was still in progress. The birds were about half a mile out at their, while a few stragglers seemingly from their number which reached the shore. Those seen at close range were gulls. Not long ago I saw a pair of bal. Towhees near a clump of willows growing on the bank of the old Salina river. This entirely dis- proves Louis Prokau's statement that they never occurred here. No notes were taken from about this time until nearly a year afterwards. O.T. Selden.