216 BIRDS OF OHIO. 
6. (186.) PLEGADIS AUTUMNALIS (Hasselq.). 193. 
‘Glossy Ibis. 
Synonyms: Plegadis falcinellus, Ibis ordii, Ibis falcinellis, Ibis 
falcinellus var. ordii, Tringa autumnalis. 
Black Snipe, Black Curlew. 
Dr. Wheaton records the only specimen of this species 
which has ever been taken in Ohio, as follows: “Dr. Kirt- 
land, after quoting from the Boston Traveler (June 28), 
1850, an account of the capture of this species at Cam- 
bridge and Middleboro, Massachusetts, and Middletown, 
Connecticut, says: ‘To the above we would add that two of 
these interesting birds, probably a pair, were seen two years 
since near Fairport, Lake county. One of them, a beauti- 
ful male, was shot by Mr. Pruden, and forwarded to us. 
It was duly skinned and mounted, and may now be seen 
alongside of a Scarlet Ibis, from the banks of the Amazon, 
in the second case south of the door, in the cabinet of Nat. 
Hist.; at Cleve. Med. Col.’ ” 
A wanderer from the south. 
Grier PALUDICOLA. Cranes, Rails, ete: 
Family ‘sRuIpD#. Cranes. 
7%. (205.) GrRuUS CANADENSIS (Linn.). —. 
Little Brown Crane. 
Synonyms: Ardea canadensis. 
Davie, Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, Fifth Edition, 
1898, 121. 
“T mounted a specimen of this bird which was taken in 
the spring of 1884, from a flock of seven or eight birds near 
Springfield, Ohio. It is a rare migrant in the state.” This 
is the only state record, and must be regarded as strictly 
accidental. It is not given by Butler as a bird of Indiana, 
and is regarded as a doubtful species in northern Michigan. 
A wanderer from the west. 
