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pigeon with very long wings," which probably refers to the Ring- 

 billed Gull L. delawarensis. 



Family RYNCHOPIDJE. 



Genus RYNCHOPS Linnseus. 

 8. Rynohops nigra (L. ). Black Skinner. 



A specimen was found dead in Obion County after a severe storm 

 by Mr. J. A. Craig, who gave me an account of it. 



Order STEGANOPODES. 



Family ANHINGIDJE. 

 Genus ANHINGA Brissou. 



7. Anhinga anhinga (L. ). Snake Bird, Anhinga. 



This bird is found about Memphis and it is probable that it 

 it occurs on Reelfoot Lake, though I was unable to identify 

 it among the numerous " Water-turkeys" frequenting the Lake, 

 that name being applied to both this species and the Cormo- 

 rant. There is a Cypress swamp about four miles from Samburg 

 across the lake in which a "Turkey Roost" has existed for a long 

 period, but which has been practically abandoned because of the 

 destruction of the young birds, for bait, by the fishermen. The 

 nests are built in the tops of the tallest cypresses and this fact seems 

 to prove pretty conclusively that the Anhinga bred there, though it is 

 not impossible that the Cormorants have adopted the same rookery and 

 nesting sites in preference to their usual habitations among the 

 brushes on the lake shore. Haywood and Lauderdale Counties, 

 nesting in Mississippi bottoms ; Miles. 



Family PHALACROCORACIDJE. 

 Genus PHALACROCORAX Brisson. 



8. Phalacrocorax dilophus floridanus (Aud.). Florida Cormorant. 



9. ? Phalacrocorax mexicanus (Brandt). Mexican Cormorant. 

 Cormorants are quite abundant at Reelfoot Lake. Among the 



commoner species ( P. d. floridanus) I observed a few, which, by 

 their solitary and seclusive habits, light coloration and smaller size 

 were probably the Mexican bird, and previous records of mexicanus 

 on the eastern shore of the Mississippi as far north as Cairo, Illinois, 

 give color to this supposition. Haywood and Lauderdale Coun- 

 ties ; Miles. 



