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for information. These malve the fifth and sixth records for this 

 county. Rev. W. F. Henninger. 



A Brant at the Lewistown Reseevoie. On March 29, 1905, a 

 Brant was killed at the Lewistown Reservoir, Logan County, Ohio. 

 Having no other key except Chapman's Handltook, I identified it as 

 Brania hernicla (Linn). But, since Chapman does not describe the 

 subspecies, B. b. glaucogastra (Brehm), I am not now sure which 

 it was. It is possible, as Dawson suggests, that it was tne latter, 

 that is, the White-bellied Brant. G. C. Fisiif.r. 



Mockingbird (Mimus pohjglottos) at Geinnell, Iowa. One was 

 observed from October 29 to November 4, 1906, by Mr. Will Staat 

 and others. Prof. H. W. Parker, in American Naturalist, Vol. 5, No. 

 3, 1871, records specimens seen June 25, August 4, and October 21, 

 at Grinnell. Aside from these I know of no instances of its oc- 

 currence in central Iowa as far north as 41 44. J. L. Sloanaker. 



The Dickcissel in Wayne County, Mich. In the Wilson Bulletin No. 

 53, December, 1905, I gave an account of Dickcissel here up to the year 

 1906. During the latter season I was so fortunate as to again meet with 

 the species and found two nests. The territorj' where these birds were 

 found was carefully explored in May, so I feel certain that the male dis- 

 covered on June 10, was the first arrival. After that date an occasional 

 male was heard singing, but I could not spare the time to investigate, 

 being fully occupied with Henslow's Sparrow and Short-billed Marsh 

 Wren. The first female Dickcissel was noted on June 24. It was not 

 until July 29 that I could give the species proper atention. Two pairs 

 were located, one on Private Claim 618, village of Grosse Pointe Farms, 

 and the other on P. C. 404, Grosse Pointe Township. The female of the 

 latter pair was watched to her nest, which was placed about six inches 

 above the ground in a thick tangle of grape vines at the base of a dead 

 apple-tree in an abandoned orchard, and it contained three young, which 

 were gone August 5. I succeeded in locating three more pairs and found 

 a nest containing three eggs. This nest was in a hawthorn bush two feet 

 from the ground, and was well concealed by thick weeds. One of the eggs 

 was about to hatch, and the remaining two were addled. My next visit 

 was on September 3, but the birds had disappeared. J. Claire Wood. 



Catharista atrata, Black Vulture, in Harrison County, Ohio. Through 

 the kindness of Mr. Harry B. McConnell, of Cadiz, who made the 

 identification, I learn of the occurrence of the Black Vulture five miles 

 north of Cadiz. The bird was shot on December 17, 1906, by Homer 

 Mover, who mistook it for a hawk. The bird was only winged, but so 

 strenuously resisted being taken alive that it was shot a second time and 

 killed. The specimen reached me more than a week later, but was then 



