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Flotc-hei' M. Noe iuforms me he saw a specimen ■which was killed Oc- 

 tober 12, 1902, near Martinsville, but Avas unable to obtain it. 



C. K. Muchmore wrote me that a flock of thirty-seven White Pelicans 

 "stopped over" at the pond of the Cincinnati Ice Company, two miles 

 south of Laurel, September 29, 1902. Two of them were killed by a boy. 

 Earl Masters, who brought them to my informant. The next morning he 

 received a third specimen frora Earl Bossert, of Brookville. 



From another source I learn that the bird last mentioned was one of 

 two, possibly from the same flock previously noted near Laurel. 



TANTALUS LOCULATOR (Linn.). 



Wood Ibis.—Though the Wood Ibises were formerly found irregularly 

 in some numbers in southern Indiana, and doubtless were summer residents 

 and bred, they have not been reported for several years. These peculiar 

 birds, sometimes called "gourd heads" from their odd, naked heads and 

 long heavy bills, were formerly found in the lower part of the White 

 Water and Wabash valleys. To the latter they occasionally recur. With 

 the increasing warfare upon our larger birds especially and the rapidly 

 diminishing area of suitable range, they lessened in numbers for years, 

 and more recently none have been observed by anj^ one who noted them. 

 Through the most of August and September last they were found in con- 

 siderable numbers in suitable places in the lower Wabash Valley. The 

 earliest date reported was August 10, near Montezuma, Indiana, when a 

 single specimen was seen. The latest occurrence was from the same 

 vicinity September 28. 



The following data from Mr. D. W. Overman, of Montezuma, is inter- 

 esting: 



"On August 10 I saw a single specimen iu a dead elm at the Coose 

 Pond about two miles north of this place, in the Wabash bottoms. On 

 12tli saw ten or twelve more. The 17th an old flsherman brought me a 

 specimen, and another the ISth. From tlie 14th they were of daily occur- 

 rence and were seen passing north along the Wabash in flocks varying in 

 number from four to 150 or 200. The one whose head I sent you was 

 taken the 18th, by Mr. Clias. Doss, from a flock of twenty-ttve or thirty, 

 and was 'using' along the Wabash just south of town. The specimen 

 brought me by Mr. Tombs, of Arcadia, was taken the 18th near the town. 



"I killed one August 24 at Goose Pond from a flock of thirty-five or 

 forty. They were last reported as being seen September 28." 



