iSq^I f5uTLKR ou the Ei'ciiiiii^ Groshrak. ^ZLI 



"Five specimens shot at Wliitiiio- Station, Indiana." Mr. S. W. 

 Willard in ''llic Ank', Oct. , i 886, notes this s)X'cies from De Pere, 

 Wisconsin, Nov. 2S, 1885, and <;ives it as tlic llrst record for that 

 locality. Mr. Geo. A. Coleman records eit^ht from Loiulon, 

 Nebraska, March [3, 18S6. There is a specimen in the collection 

 of Mrs. A. \V. Brayton, In(lianai)olis, Indiana, which she informs 

 me was bron^ht to her in the snmmer of 1886, having been taken 

 near Allisonxille, twelve miles north of Indianapolis. 



Mr. C. W. Ke\es has reported them present at Iowa City, 

 Iowa, at ditlerent times from December, 1886, to April 30, 1887. 

 but lie had previousl\- noted them from the same loc.ility, in Feb- 

 rn ir}', i8.S^, and iVom Charles Citv, Iowa, in March, 1879, and 

 the\- have been reported bv the same anthoritv from (Jrinni'll and 

 Bnrlington. Mr. W. F. Sannders has reported them from 

 London, Ontario, December, 18S6, and has also noted their oc- 

 currence at Chatham :md St. Thom is, Ontario. The winter of 

 18S6-87 thev were (piite common in the vicinity ot' Chicago ; sev- 

 eral of mv friends sent ver\' fnll notes of their observations. In 

 the collection of Mr. (J. Frt'an Morcom at Chicago are two males 

 and two females taken at Lake George, Indiana, December 5, 

 1S86. Messrs. Coale and Fopp.in report seeing two Jan. 1,1887, 

 in Lake County, Indiana. Jiui. 14. Mr. Toppan reportetl two 

 males near Chicago. Jan. 20, 1887, a single male was taken by the 

 late Mr. C. 11. Bollm m at Bloomington, Indiana, of which he 

 wrote : "This is the tirst specimen that was ever taken in this 

 vicinity and, as far as I know, in the State." On the same day 

 Cal. Meredith and another iiigh schot)l student at Frankfort, 

 Indiana, shot live from a Hock of twelve. These were identified 

 by Mr. C. E. Newlin, then the principal of the high school. 



Mr. E. L. Mosely informs me that he noted twelve at Grand 

 Rapids, Michigan, Feb. 22, r8S7. In February, 1S87, they 

 were noted for the first time at IJarron, Wisconsin. May 25, 

 1887, Oscar Vaught shot two out of a flock of eight or ten near 

 Mace, six miles fiom Crawfordsville, Indiana. lie notes "they 

 were in the centre of a dense wood, feeding upon elm buds. 

 Iliey were very gentle, but after I had fired twice they flew and 

 I was unable to find them again." These specimens are in the 

 collection of Prof. O. P. Jenkins, now of Leland Stanford, Jr., 

 University, Palo Alto, Cala. In the collection of Mr. Morcom I 

 saw six males and two females, marked Berry Lake, Indiana, 

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