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Henslow's Sparrow is of regular occurrence as a fall migrant ; in fact, ,- 

 can always be found in suitable localities during that period. Have ob- 

 served it only twice in spring ; but this is no indication of rarity, having 

 never really looked for it. 



Lincoln's Sparrow cannot be considered rare. Met with it on the 

 three days afield in September ; also October 2 and 9. 



Connecticut Warbler. — Secured an immature bird on October 6 in 

 Ecorse Township. This is the second record, Mr. P. A. Taverner taking 

 the first specimen in Greenfield Township. 



Red-throated Loon. — May 9 I had the pleasure of examining an adult 

 male on Grosse Isle, Monguagon Township. It was shot by a French- 

 man who invited me down to inspect a "Red-throated Hell-diver." 



Blue-winged Teal. — Was on Elba Island, Monguagon Township, June 

 20-24, ar) d noted a male in the marsh throughout my stay. The female 

 was noticed but once and only for a short time, from which I conclude 

 she was incubating. In 1886-87 I saw parents followed by young in a 

 marsh just below the city in what is now known as the Village of River 

 Rouge. Black-crowned Night Herons were also common about this 

 same marsh at that time, but I have seen none since the summer of 1890. 



American Merganser. — A pair spent the summer in the vicinity of 

 Elba and Hickory Islands. Noted them on several visits during June, 

 July and August. 



Passenger Pigeon. — While woodcock shooting in October I was joined 

 by a soldier from the fort who stated he shot several of these pigeons in ► 

 September from a flock of about twenty. They were feeding on beech 

 nuts in a large woods near Orchard Lake, Oakland County. This has a 

 ring of truth about it. The last seen by me in Wayne County was in 

 Greenfield Township, on March 21, 1890, and the very last was a pair 

 near Corunna, Michigan, on May 10, 1892. 



Bob-white. — The severe winter of 1903-04 nearly exterminated the Bob- 

 w r hite. One farmer told me that of about twenty on his farm in Novem- 

 ber, not one was left the following spring. 



A notable feature of the autumn migration was the unusual abundance 

 of Gray-cheeked Thrushes and Fox Sparrows and the total absence of 

 Tennessee Warblers. 



Except as otherwise stated, the above randoms refer to Wayne County 

 and the season of 1904. — J. Claire Wood, Detroit, Michigan. 



Erroneous Maine Records. — During the past seven years it has re- 

 peatedly been necessary to call the attention of ornithological writers to 

 the fact that many of the birds recorded in Mr. George A. Boardman's 

 lists were taken on land and waters within the British dominion and are 

 not entitled to be listed as birds of Maine and New England. Mr. Board- 

 man's original list (cf. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. IX, pp. 122-132) 

 by its very title, ' Catalogue of the Birds Found in the Vicinity of Calais, 

 Maine, and about the Islands of the Bay of Fundy,' shows that he did not 



