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W(ii-thiiit,'ti)ii. lul. Fcnialc shot A]»i'il Ki. r.)(lll. Itc'imrted liy I'rof. 

 AV. B. Van Gorder. whd says it l)UH'ds in tliat vicinity. In a letter dated 

 December 2(i, 1910, the same writer says a niari while mowing clO'Ver near 

 Wliite Kiver in June last, lound a number nf little ducks. He secured six. 

 Three died. Some two nidiiths after he K<)t them, one of these died. The 

 reinainiiiLC two were subsequently transfeired to Mr. William Ilolton I*ye, 

 Xoblesville, Ind. They proved to I)e yivum; Wood Ducks. 

 /Ii'iisloir's Sixirroir. rasserherbulus henslowi henslowi (And.). 



Mr. Xormau A. Wood of Ann Aibor. Mich., reports tindinii a mah- 

 Ilensl.iw's Sparrow dead at that place April is. V.lOU. May 1, IDd".). he 

 reports two sliot, one a female. Veiy rare. This is the first record 

 for that locality. 

 J,'()ii>jli-1c<j(,('(J Ilairk. Ai-chibnteo lagojins sancti-johannis (Gmel.). 



Bicknell, Knox County, Indi.-ma. First seen December 23, 1908; next 

 seen December 24, and iast seen December 29. Same locality Xoveml)er 12, 

 191(1, one. Next seen November 1."); last seen December 3. Noted as com- 

 mon that fall. K. J. C'hansler. 

 J'Jf/rcf. Ilerodias egretta ((4mel.l. 



Mr. E. J. Chansler reports tliem from Bicknell, Ind., July 25, 1910, and 

 last seen in tlnit locality August 30. 1910, and says: "Connnon this fall 

 on jxinds and other good feeding places." 

 ( I ratter Snow Goose. Chen hyperbcn-eus nivalis (Forst.). 



Mr. Chansler reports seeing two near Bicknell, October 23, 1910. He 

 marks tiiem as rare, and says: "These geese were observed in a Hock 

 of Canada Geese. I'sually we find them either with Canada Geese or with 

 Hutchins' Geese, but sometimes in a flnck by themselves." 

 Wood Ihis. Mycteria americana (Linn.). 



I'rof. W. B. Van Gorder, Lyons, Greene County, Indiana, informs me 

 that a Wood Ibis was killed on White Iliver near that place June 27, 1910. 

 it had l)een seen in that vicinity for a month prior to that time. The 

 Indianapolis News, July KJ, lOKi, reported the killing of a Wood Ibis 

 in Brown County. Fpon my request. Mr. I'hilip Baker, an accurate and 

 relial)le observer, was asked to verify the record. He was able to secure 

 for me the accompanying pliotogra])h of this bird from j\lr. W. W. Frazer, 

 Mt. Liberty, Ind. 



Prof. W. B. Van (Jordt^r says a immber of Wood Ibises were seen in 

 Greene County the sunnuer of 1911. They arrived near Marco about 

 the middle of June and left about September 10. "The person who shot 



