120 The Wilson Bulletin— No. GO. 



Notes fkom a Columbus Taxidermist. — I can report an luuisiial 

 abundance of Wood Duck this fall. I have mounted eight or ten 

 during the past two weeks, and know of as many more that have 

 been killed. In the years 1900 to 1905 I did not see a Wood Duck 

 and came to regard them as nearly extinct. Indeed many new 

 sportsmen did not know what a Wlood Dnek is like, and some have 

 come to me with Mergansers saying that they had Wood Ducks. 

 I mention this to show that the bird was almost unknown for a time. 

 In the fall of 190.3 these Dui-ks began to come in for mounting and 

 have been growing more common ever since. Some one with 

 more bird-lore than myself must account for the increase. Cer- 

 tainly every one will be glad of it. 



In the spring I hiad a Black-bellied Plover to mount which I 

 regard as rare. I also knew of two Little Blue Herons being taken 

 at Buckeye Lake. They were preserved by a friend who still 

 has them. I mounted a Doul)le-crested Cormorant for I'rof. Mercer 

 of Athens, which was presumably taken at Buckeye Lake. 



Thomas M. Earl. 



Bewick's Wren {Thryomancs hewickii) in Seneca County, Ohio. 

 — On April 3rd. while waiting for a street car in the west end of 

 town I twice heard the song of Bewick's Wren and also saw the 

 bird once As I have been familiar with the bird for fifteen years 

 in Missouri, Virginia and Southern. Ohio, I was greatly surprised 

 to run across this species up in this part of the state, and I re- 

 gard its occurrence here as purely accidental. This record, to- 

 gether with the Henslow's Sparrow of last fall and the Black- 

 crowned Night Heron of May 14, 1907, brings the number of 

 species for this county up to 208. W. F. Henninger. 



