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1903 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Great Black-backed Gull in Oneida County, N. Y. — An immature 

 female Great Black-backed Gull (Lams marimts) was shot in the southern 

 part of this town, the latter part of February, 1903. This is the first 

 recorded occurrence of the species in this cguntj. — W. S. Johnson, 

 Boonvillc, Oneida County, jV. Y. 



Additional Records of the European Widgeon [Mareca petielope) in 

 Indiana. — My last record of this duck for Indiana was noted in 'The 

 Auk,' Vol. XVI, 1899, p. 270. 



An adult male was killed March 27, 1903, on the Englis Lake marshes 

 by Mr. James M. McKay and the mounted bird is now in his possession. 

 While he came to the decoy alone, there were several flocks of his Amer- 

 ican cousins on the marsh at the time, in whose company he had undoubt- 

 edh' been. 



Mr. Harry Ehlers of Chicago, has in his collection of mounted ducks, 

 an adult male which he shot April 7, 189S, and a female shot March 28, 

 1898. This pair was taken on the Kankakee marshes near Thayer, 

 Indiana. Another male was killed by Mr. Peter Willem of Chicago, near 

 the same locality on March 31, 1902, and the mounted specimen is in his 

 possession. 



As a specimen was captured on Licking Reservoir, Ohio, in 1902,' and 

 three others on the Monroe marshes, Michigan, in 1900 and 1902.'^ These 

 records bring the number to seventeen for the interior and nine for the 

 State of Indiana. It is not a little strange that all these Indiana birds 

 should have been taken along the Kankakee River during a period of 

 twenty-two vears. — Ruthven Deane, Chicago^ III. 



Hybrid Duck — Mallard {Anas boschas) + Pintail [Dajila acuta). — Eight 

 or ten years ago there was killed in this vicinity by Mr. George Lower 

 (since deceased) a hvbrid duck — Anas bosc/ias (Mallard) -|- ZJfT/rVrt «<"«/« 

 (Pintail) — which specimen has just been placed in the Colorado Museum 

 of Natural History in this city. I have recently had an opportunity of 

 making a detailed study of this specimen and have carefully compared it 

 with typical A. boschas and D. acuta., the results of which comparison I 

 here give. 



Bill plumbeous with black stripe on culmen as in J D. acuta, but in 

 measurements showing tendency toward A. boschas, being .75 broad at 

 base and having culmen of 2.25 ; forehead and crown grayish brown 

 streaked with black as in D. acuta, this well defined stripe merging into 

 plain light cinnamon upon and terminating in a blunt point at the pos- 



iThe Wilson Bulletin, New Series, Vol. IX, p. 71. 

 == The Auk, Vol. XIX, p. 284. 



