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for that same quality of stability have fluctuated like the tides 

 without their regularity. They have been bandied about by the 

 breath of every dusty book worm that has happened upon an 

 author who happened to have put a name in the first chapter 

 instead of the second of his miss-gotten book. Technicality 

 after technicality has been made use of, often directly against 

 the evident wishes of the original author, and to-day one hes- 

 itates to use a name for fear that before the paper passes 

 through the printer's hands it will be antiquated in its phrase- 

 ology. 



In conclusion let us ask. Has not the law of Priority been, 

 reduced to a fetish? and is a name really applied to a species 

 for convenience in handling or to the end that a man's name 

 may go down to posterity attached in an abbreviated form to 

 an already too long bi- or trinomial ? In brief, is the scientist 

 made for the name or the name for the scientist ? Which 

 wags, the tail or the dog? 



THREE HITHERTO UNKNOWN PELICAN RECORDS 



FOR OHIO. 



While in Port Clinton, Ohio, in July, 1903, I found out that 

 a jeweler by the name of Dewit had shot a Pelican the preced- 

 ing fall on Lake Erie. The specimen was taken along to New 

 York City by a friend of his and mounted in that city. 



About twenty years ago a Pelican was shot \]/ 2 miles south 

 of Tiffin on Sandusky River and stood mounted for years 

 in a local cigar store. In November, 1901, another Pelican 

 was shot by some local hunters in the Bloomville marshes in 

 Seneca Co. I do not know what became of the specimen. 

 Thev were all Pelicanus ervthrorhynchos. 



W ADDITION TO THE BIRDS OF MIDDLE SOUTH- 

 ERN OHIO. 



The fact that Dr. Jones and Rev. Dawson found the Black 

 Terns along the ( )hio River in August, 1902, and also 



