20 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 58. 



ADDITIONS TO THE BIRDS OF OHIO. 



BY LYNDS JONES. 



In a state as long settled as Ohio it is not to be supposed 

 that there would be any such shifting of the bird fauna as to 

 bring into it regularly occurring species, but on the other 

 hand, it would not be supposed that there would be no further 

 new occurrences of an accidental nature after a list had once 

 been made and approved. In my Revised Catalogue pub- 

 lished three and a half years ago I tried to show that there is 

 a definite north-eastward piovement of the breeding birds which 

 has already resulted in pushing some species which formerly 

 nested along the extreme northern border northward out of 

 the state, while other species have come into the state and be- 

 come regular breeders along its south-western border. A con- 

 tinuance of such a movement must inevitably sooner or later 

 bring to our fauna more of the more southward nesting 

 species, such as the Nonpareil and Blue Grosbeak. No such 

 additions have been made in the interval since the Revised 

 Catalogue was published, but several additions have been 

 made to the list of Accidental occurrences. The following 

 species are further additions to this list : 



Lartis frankllmi. — Franlilin's Gull. I found the specimen which is 

 now in the Oberlin College collection in the taxidermist shop of Mr. Thos. 

 M. Earl of Columbus. A hunter had brought it into his shop to be 

 mounted but left it there. It was shot at the Licking Reservoir on October 

 15, 1906. The hunter stated that there Vv'as another bird of the same kind 

 with it. 



Ammodramus leconteii. — Leconte's Sparrow. Mr. Charles Dury informs 

 me that he accidentally found a speciamen of this sparrow in his collec- 

 tion labeled Grasshopper Sparrow. It was captured by him in a swampy 

 meadow near Ross Lake on April 5, 1880. It is an adult male. 



The Yellow-breasted Chat in Michigan. A correction. In his 

 article in \yilson Bulletin No. 54, page 17, Mr. P. A. Taverner states 

 that the two nests secured by Messrs. Wisener and Davidson were in 

 Grosse Pointe. The nest found by Mr. Wisener was on Private Claim 

 618, Gratiot Tp., and that by Mr. Davidson on Private Claim 49, Ecorse 

 Tp. Mr. Taverner did not mention a set of three eggs found by Dr. T. 

 H. Potter and recorded by Dr. Philip E. Moody in Michigan Bulletin, 

 Vol. IV, No. 4, p. 97. This nest was north of Detroit, and probably on 

 the same ground where he met with his 1905 birds. J. Claire Wood. 



