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13. Lams argentatus. — Herring Gull. 



A beautiful pair of adults were seen at close range Septem- 

 ber 24th at the Grand Reservoir, the earliest inland fall date I 

 can find for Ohio. 



14. Totanus mclanoleucus. — Greater Yellow-legs. 



A fine male was sent to me, shot on October IGth, at the 

 Loramie Reservoir, 



15. Phalacrocora.v anritus. — Double-crested Cormorant. 



A fine young female was shot at the Loramie Reservoir on 

 October 16th, and is now in my collection. It seems best to 

 refer the specimen to this species and not to floridanns, al- 

 though T have but one Comorant of the sub-species floridaiius 

 in my collection to compare it with. 



3 6. Nycticora.v n. no'viiis. — Black-crowned Night Heron. 



Besides the specimen mentioned in the June Bulletin as taken 

 at the Loramie Reservoir, another young male was taken at 

 Wapakoneta in April and mounted there and then. 



THE BROWN STATN OCCASIONALLY SEEN ON 

 • THE FEATHERS OF WILD DUCKS. 



BY B. R. BALES. M. D. 



During a number of years of collecting of natural history 

 .specimens, I have on several occasions taken ducks whose 

 breasts and lower parts were stained with a rusty or brownish 

 stain. The feathers so affected have a harsh feeling and do not 

 have the smooth or oily feeling of ducks' feathers not so af- 

 fected. 



Mr. W. F. Henninger, in the Wilson Bulletin, Vo. XXH., 

 No. 2, page 102, writes of three Scaup Ducks [Aythya marila 

 nearcfica) that were abnormally colored with "a. rusty-brown- 

 ish wash." He also quotes Mr. Leon J. Cole in the Osprey, 

 1897, p. 69, and Mr. T. F. Arnow in the Auk, Vol. XXIV., No. 



