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KEY TO OHIO LOCUSTS IN WINTER CONDITION. 



Julio C. Ortega. 



• Robinia L. Trees or shrubs with alternate leaf-scars and 



usually with stipular spines; terminal buds absent; leaf-scars 



covering the small clustered or superposed axillary buds; the 



buds sunken and hardly projecting beyond the surface; pith 



cylindrical and of medium size. 



1. Twigs glabrous; not glandular; a large slender tree with rough bark. 



R. pscndacacia L. Coinnion Locust 



1. Twigs very glandular or bristly. 2. 



2. Twigs very bristly; with long glandular emergences; a mvich branch- 



ing shrub. R. hispida L. Bristly Locust 



2. Twigs very glandular, and with short gland-tipped emergences; a 



small" tree with rough bark. R. viscosa L. Clammy Locust 



A Species of Hawk New to Ohio. — On Wednesday, Feb- 

 ruary 6th, Professor W. C. Mills called my attention to a hawk 

 which had been sent to him by M. Aimer Hegler of Washington 

 Court House, Ohio. The bird proves to be a specimen of the 

 Gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus gyrfalco, which has not been reported 

 from the state before. Mr. Hegler writes as follows: "This 

 hawk was caught in a steel trap while feeding upon a hen, but 

 Mr. Carr who caught it is not sure that it killed the chicken itself, 

 or whether some other hawk did the killing. It was caught two 

 miles west of Washington Court House on Wednesday, January 

 30, 1907, on the farm of Jacob Carr." 



The species is northern in its distribution and habitually wan- 

 ders southw^ard during winter weather, specimens being recorded 

 for Kansas, Michigan and some of the New England States. The 

 specimen was presented to the Zoological Museum, and is now 

 being mounted so it may be kept in good condition as evidence 

 of the first record of this fine species for Ohio. 



James S. Hixe. 



A Bird New to Ohio. — While comparing species of Ohio 

 birds in my collection recently, with state records, I was sur- 

 prised to discover that Leconte's sparrow, Ammordamus lecontei 

 hitherto had not been recorded for the state. I have a specimen 

 which I shot in a swampy meadow, near Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 April 5th, 1880. 



Chas. Dury, Cincinnati. 



