61 



Wortluiiston, nd. Female .shot April 10, 1909. Keported by Prof. 

 AA^. B. A'an Gorder, who says it liieeds in th:it vicinity. In a letter dated 

 December 2(!, 1910. the same writer says a man wliile mowin.ij; clover near 

 AA'hite River in June last, found a number of little ducks. He secured six. 

 Three died. Some two moriths after he got them, one of these died. The 

 remaining two were svilisequently transfeired t<> -Mr. AVilliam Ilolton Dye. 

 Xoblesville. Ind. They proved to l)e young AA'ood Ducl-:s. 

 Iff'iisloiv'.s S/Kirroir. I'asserherlmius lienslowi henslowi (And.). 



]Mr. N(.rman A. AA'ood of Ann Ailior. Alicli., reports finding a male 

 Henslow's Sparrow dead at that place April is, 1909. May 1, 1909, he 

 reports two shot, one a female. A'ery rare. This is the first record 

 for that locality. 

 RoHijIi-lcfiued Hawk. Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis (Ginel.). 



Bicknell, Knox County. Indiana. First seen December 23, 1908; next 

 seen December 24. and last seen December 29. Same locality November 12, 

 1910, one. Next seen Xovemlier l.">: last seen December 3. Noted as com- 

 mon that fall. E. J. Chansler. 

 Egret. Herodias egretta (Gniel.). 



Mr. E. J. Chansler reports tliem from Bicknell, Ind., July 25, 1910, and 

 last seen in that locality August 30, 1910, and says: "Common this fa'l 

 on jtonds and other good feeding places." 

 Greater ^now Goose. Chen hyperboreus nivalis (Forst. ). 



Ml. Chansler reports seeing two near Bicknell, Dctober 23, 1910. He 

 marks them as rare, and says: ''These geese were observed in a Hock 

 of Canada Geese. Usually we find them either with Canada Geese or with 

 Hutchins" Geese, but sometimes in a fiick liy themselves." 

 Wood Ihis. Mycterla americana (Linn.). 



I'rof. \A^. B. A^an Gorder, Lyons, Greene County. Indiana, informs me 

 that a A^'(Kid Ibis was killed on AA'hite liiver near that place June 27, 1910. 

 It had been seen in that vicinity for a month iirior to that time. The 

 Indianapolis News. July 16, 1910, reported the killing of a AA'ond Ibis 

 in Brown County. Upon my request. Mr. Philip Baker, an accurate and 

 reliable observer, was asked to verify the record. He was able to secure 

 for me the accompanying ph(itograi»h of this bird from Mr. AV. A\^. Frazer. 

 Mt. Liberty, Ind. 



Prof. W. B. A'an (iorder says a number of AA^'ood Ibises were seen in 

 Greene County the sunnncr of 1911. They arrived near Marco about 

 the middle of June and left about September 10. "The person who shot 



