34: The Wilson Bulletin — No. 58. 



in an impossible condition. The wings were saved after identification 

 had been made certain. This is the farthest north that this species has 

 been taken in Ohio. A resume of the Ohio occurrences may prove of 

 interest. 



Audubon was the first to record it in 1840, Birds of America, p. 17, for 

 the region of Cincinnati. This record was quoted by Kirkpatrick, Brewer, 

 Wheaton, and Coues, but the next record was made by Dr. Frank 

 Langdon in Bulletin of the Nuttal Ornithological Club, Vol. 2, p. 109, 

 1899. Dr. Langdon saw three birds feeding upon carrion near Madison- 

 ville, one of which he wounded and was afterward probably captured by 

 Edwin Leonard on January i, 1877. Dr. Langdon saw the birds on De- 

 cember 20, 1876. Mr. R. W. Smith recorded a pair near Lebanon, 

 December, 1883. This record, together with the statement that it is now 

 a regular summer resident in Warren county along the Little Miami and 

 Caesar's Creek hills, was published in the Journal of the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural History, July, 1891, p. 113. Mr. Oliver Davie took 

 a specimen four miles north of Reynoldsburg on February 6, 1895. It is 

 curious that the northward occurrences are all during the winter 

 months. Lynds Jones. 



Ring-billed Gull, Larus delawarensis, in Central Ohio. In the taxi- 

 dermy rooms of Mr. Thos. M. Earl, of Columbus, I found two specimens 

 of this species. They are now in the Oberlin College collection. One is 

 full plumage, and was shot by a hunter on the Licking Reservoir on 

 April 15, 1906; the other is an immature bird, and was shot at the 

 same place on October 15, 1906. Another bird was shot on the 

 latter date and is now in a local collection in Columbus. There are so 

 few recent records of this species in Ohio and Michigan that I was led 

 to question earlier records of their commonness on Lake Erie. Certainly 

 in my experience the species has been all but unknown in Ohio. 



Lynds Jones. 



