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Additions to a list of the Birds of Harding County, Northwestern 

 South Dakota, II. In 'The \ul. ' for January, 1911, pages 5-16, 

 e a partial li t of the bird ofthi county. In "The Auk ' for January, 

 1012, page 110 mi, v. a afirel lisl (10 pedes) of additions. During the 

 Bummer of L912 I revisited in Augu t and September, practically .'ill pari 

 of the county undei the au pi© ol the South I : ite Survey and 



collected a number of birds. added to the list a1 this timi 



marked by an a rteri I 



Ardeaherodias. Great I'm i Heron, —Though reported byGrinnell 

 and l»', Catron, I met with no individuals during 1910 oi 1911. In L912, 

 however, several w< long the Little Missouri River early in Sep- 



tember. 



Dryobates pubescens homorus. Batchelder's Woodpeci 

 A specimen collected September I, was identified by Oberhol era belonging 

 in the Rock} Mountain Bub pecies. In my lisl the Downy Woodpeci 

 were reported as D. p. nu dia/n 



'Porzana Carolina. Sora. One individual vrat seen September 7, 

 in a mall reed-filled slump-marsh in the East Short Pines. 



Ammodramus bairdi. Baird's Sparrow.— This was an abundant 

 specie- early in September. Specimens collected al thai time as well as 

 the breeding male shol July I l, 1912, have been identified by Oberhol iei 



Melospiza melodia juddi. Dakota Song Sparrow. — A breeding 

 Song Sparrow collected by me in the sand bills of southern South Dakota 

 (Bennel County) has been referred by Oberholser to this subspecies. 

 Cooke writes as though all the Song Sparrows of western South Dakota 

 musl therefore belong to M . m. juddi (instead of M . m. melodia as I reported 



in m\ list.) 



'Melospiza lincolni lincolni. Lincoln's Sparrow.— One collected 

 September 7, in the Easl Shorl Pine Hills (identified by Biological Survey.) 



Representatives of various other species were collected and specimens of 



a number were submitted to the Biological Survey, but since they merely 



tantiate earlier field identifications, and require ao corrections it is not 



thoughl necessary to mention them. S. S. Visher, I niversity of South 



Dakota, I i million, S. Dak. 



Birds at Sea. On December 8, 1912, a livefemale Eider Duck (Soma- 



ii Ha 'ii< sseri) was broughl to me. [1 had Keen captured on the deck of the 



mship 'Juniata,' off Cape Cod, Mass., December 5, having come aboard 



in a dense fog. Ii lived for ten day-- on celery tops —all other food 



i al the end of which time ii died, and is now in my collection. 



'in about Octobei 16, I'M I, two young Duck Efawks were captured on a 

 tramp steamer coming to this porl for bunker coal. The mate informed 

 me tfiey wen- aboul one hundred miles off Batteras when the birds were 

 taken. \n Osprey also came aboard the same day, and all were easily 

 captured as they were utterly exhausted. There had been a had storm the 

 day previous. These birds were examined by both my father and me 



