The Birds of Warren County, O. 107 



In the following pages the A. O. U. nomenclature has been 

 followed as a standard, and as to the common or vernacular 

 names, the Code is also followed in most cases, the exceptions 

 being birds well-known in the county by the names which 

 appear in the list, rather than those given in the Code. The 

 dates of arrival and departure, which are necessarily approx- 

 imate, are given so as to include all but the very early or late 

 stragglers. 



CI.ASS AVES. 



Sub-Order Carinat.k. — Carinate Birds. 



Order Pvgopodes. — Diving Birds. 



Family podicipidtK. — Grebes. 



1. CoLVMBUS AURiTis Linn. — Horned grebe. Rare Spring 

 and Fall migrant. A pair in the collection of Mr. Gould was 

 shot on the old reservoir in April, 1880. 



2. PoDiLYMBUS PODiCEPS (Linn.) — Dipper ; pied-billed 

 grebe. Regular Spring and Fall migrant, by no means as 

 common now as in the days of the reservoir, on which " dip- 

 pers " were abundant during the Spring and Fall months, and 

 a few remained during the Summer and probably bred. 



Family urinatorid.^. — Loons. 



3. Urinator imber (Gunn.) — Loon. Spring and Fall 

 migrant, now quite rare At times, however, as many as fif- 

 teen and twenty have been seen at once on the Lebanon Res- 

 ervoir. 



Order Longipennes. — Long-wdnged Swimmers. 

 F.AMiLY STERCORARiiD.5-:. — ^Jaegers. 



4. Stercorarius parisiticus, (Linn.) — Parasitic jaeger. 

 Accidental. As far as I can learn, this is the first record of 

 the occurrence of this bird in the State, or of its appearance 

 so far inland. The .single specimen, on which this record is 

 based, was found, while still living, but completely exhausted, 

 in a field near Lebanon, at the close of a week of very stormy 

 weather, in the latter part of March or the early part of April, 

 1880. Its captor placed it in a cage and offered it corn and 



