HYPOTHETICAL LIST 



The birds included in this Hst have been recorded from the 

 state one or more times, but so far as is known there are no Minne- 

 sota specimens in existence and the observations upon which the 

 reports have been based are not satisfactory or conclusive. Through 

 general acceptance and wide quotation of the original records, some 

 of these birds have become well established in literature as belong- 

 ing to Minnesota, when in reality there is no good ground for so 

 considering them. Such for example is the case with the Least 

 Tern, Brant, White-eyed Vireo, Bell's Vireo, and Bewick's Wren. 

 These unsupported records have been due in some instances to the 

 efforts of perfectly honest but imperfectly informed persons, in 

 other instances to too credulous acceptance of hearsay, to the care- 

 less confusion of names, or apparently to poor guessing. 



The original authority for the Minnesota record is given in 

 each case, followed occasionally by a reference to a later and fuller 

 record. With some species there are many records, chiefly through 

 quotations, but it does not seem necessary to refer to these here. 



Black-throated Loon. Hatch, Notes Bds. Minn. i8g2. 



Kittiwake Gull. Hatch, Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1874; and 



Notes Bds. Minn. i8q2. 

 Laughing Gull. Hatch, Bidl. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1874; and 



Notes Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 Least Tern. Hatch, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Sur. Minn. 1881; and 



Notes Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 Cormorant {P. carbo). Hatch, Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1874. 

 Brown Pelican. Hatch, Notes Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 Harlequin Duck. Hatch, Notes Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 King Eider. Hatch, Notes Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 White-cheeked Goose. Peabody, Nidiologist 2, 1895. 

 Brant. Head, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst. 1855. Hatch, Notes 



Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 Black Brant. Hatch, Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1874; and Notes 



Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 Glossy Ibis {P. autumnalis) . Barrows, Mich. Bird Life 191 2. 

 Snowy Egret. Hatch, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Sur. Minn. 1881; and 



Notes Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 Yellow-crowned Night Heron. Hatch, Notes Bds. Minn. 1892. 

 Black Rail. Hatch, Notes Bds. Minn. 1892. 



