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men and saw two others at a small lake in Madison Co., seven 

 miles from St. Louis, on February 27, 1880. 1 



'See Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, April, 1881, p. 124. This specimen was kindly sub- 

 mitted to me for examination by Mr. Hurter, and I identified it as P. autumnalis in 

 immature plumage, but I now fear that my identification is open to question. I have 

 just re-read a letter from Mr. Hurter (dated April 12, 1881), in which he describes the 

 fresh colors of the soft parts as follows: "Iris reddish; bill slate-color with a very 

 slight reddish tint; legs slate with also a reddish tint on the upper parts; bare skin 

 in front of the eye brownish red." (Italics my own.) The presence of a reddish tint to 

 the soft parts point rather to P. guarauna, and the specimen should be carefully 

 re-examined. 



