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PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS. 
THE OCCURENCE OF ANTHURUS BOREALIS 
BURT. IN NORTHERN OHIO. 
ES ¢: BEARDSEEE: 
Anthurus borealis Burt, was described in 1894 from 
specimens found in cultivated fields in New York state. It 
has since been found in a few other localities in the same 
state and also in the vicinity of Boston. Its occurrence in 
northern Ohio is of great interest and indicates a much 
wider distribution than has heretofore been attributed to it. 
During the past three years it has appeared near Cleve- 
land in the autumn months, though each year it has been 
detected in a different station. The past autumn it was 
found in considerable abundance in a market garden. 
It seems well distributed near Cleveland and will doubt- 
less be found not to be rare in northern Ohio as it becomes 
more thoroughly explored mycologically. 
Sep sSOUAW DUCKS (NOM PINGAILS”) CAUGHT 
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In the article, Occasional Abundance of Certain Birds 
on or near Lake Erie, published in the last annual report, 
quoted a letter from John R. Schacht; of Erie, Pa., telling 
of a great number of “pintails’’ caught in deep water. 
Recently he has informed me that the ducks were old- 
squaws. He also says: 
“On November 16th, 1900, the tug Uncle brought in 
from five hundred to five hundred and fifty old-squaw 
