198 The Wilson Bulletin — ^No. 81. 



NOTES FROM THE TRI-RESERVOIR REGION. 



From October 1st to the lOtli fully 17 Wood Ducks (Aix sponsat 

 were killed on the Grand Reservoir, showing that this duck is on the 

 increase. One of these, a fine male in full nuptial plumage, killed 

 October 11th, wasi sent me and is now in my collection. 



Oil Octolier liith and 16th six females of the White-winded Scoter 

 (Oidemia deglandi) were shot on the Grand Reservoir, but unfor- 

 tunately I could not get one for my collection. They are considered 

 good table ducks by local hunters who know them by the misnomer. 

 "Muscovy Ducks." As this name may be applied elsewhere it may 

 pay ornithologists of the Middle West to seek for them among 

 sportsmen by that name. 



On November 19th I heard of a giant hawk, spreading 7 feet one 

 inch, being shot two miles from town. I drove out to the place on 

 the next morning and was presented with a fine female Bald Eagle 

 (Haliaetus leucocephalus) approximately 21/^ years old. It had 

 been killed on the wing by two loads of No. 6 shot in the early dawn, 

 being mistaken for a hawk. 



In the year 1911 a farmer and fisherman found a duck nesting in 

 the hollow and shallow top of an old stub in the Grand Reservoir, 

 about 15 feet from the water. He stated it to be a " Black Mal- 

 lard," and upon placing my series of about 200 different ducks before 

 him he invariably picked tlie Black Duck (Anas rubripes) as 

 the bird that had nested there in the spring of 1911. As the Black 

 Duck has nested here in former years, there would be nothing out 

 of the way about it still doing so occasionally, hut the nesting site 

 is certainly unusual. The man's veracity cannot be doubted and his 

 familiarity with the species of ducks in this neighborhood serve to 

 increase the probability of the record. For several years I have 

 been of the opinion that the Black Rail would be found here, and 

 several times when at the Reservoir I was certain I had seen this 

 species. During this summer a. Mr. McGill saw the Black Rail 

 (Porzana jamaicensis) at the Grand Reservoir and the reason he 

 did not shoot it was that being too close to the bird and having 

 only heavy shot, he would have torn it to shreds. Now, Mr. Mac 

 Gill is the man who furnished Mr. Dury of Cincinnati .with one of 

 his specimens of this species taken in Ohio and being himself a 

 good entomologist, ornithologist, and taxidermist, certainly could 

 not be mistaken in his Identification of the species. The future 

 will no doubt show this species to be a .rare breeder at the Grand 

 Reservoir. 



On September 27th I saw a pair of Caspian Terns (Sterna cas- 

 pia) at the Grand Reservoir. 



Iflevy Bremen, Ohio. W. F. Henninger. 



