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STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



naw Co's, where they have been taken repeatedly. " They are very shy and 

 remain near large inland lakes" (L. W. Watkins); "not infrequently seen in 

 Lenawee and Hillsdale Co's " (A. H. Boies); "occasionally shot by hunters on 

 Lake Erie '' (Jerome Trombley); " Keweenaw Point "' (Kneeland); embraced in Dr. 

 A. Sager's list of 1839; " an adult specimen in very much worn and faded plum- 

 age, evidently an old and enfeebled bird, taken among some ducks at Tobico 

 marshes on Saginaw Bay, April 19, 1890" (N. A. Eddy). 



77-181(688). Olor buccinator (Rich.). Trumpeter Swan. 



Rare; migrant; "Hillsdale Co." (A. H. Boies); one taken in Kent Co. by E. 

 S. Holmes and now in his collection at Grand Rapids; included in the lists of 

 Michigan birds by Covert, Fox, Stockwell, and Steere; counties of Norfhern 

 Indiana (Butler's Birds of Indiana). 



Order HERODIONES. Herons, Storks, Ibises, etc. 

 Suborder IBIDES. Spoon-bills and Ibises. 



Family IBlDIDiE. Ibises. 

 Long bills; rather short legged waders: food, fish and other aquatic animals. 



Genus PLEGADIS Kaup. 



78-186 (649). Pleg-adis antuniiialls {Hasselq). Glossy Ibis. 



Very rare; occasional straggler; one Michigan specimen reported in the cata- 

 logue of the Kent Scientific Institute by E. L. Moseley; "killed Oct. 6, 1884, 

 on Saginaw Bay" (N. A. Eddy, O. and O., Vol. X, p. 9). 



Suborder HERODII. Herons, Egrets, Bitterns, etc. 



Family ARDEID^. Herons; Bitterns; etc. 

 Feed on fish, frogs, toads, etc.; about marshes; not usually game birds. 

 • - Subfamily BOTAURINvE. Bitterns. 



Genus BOTAURUS Heebmann. 



Bill of Bittern, natural size. 



