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of Mr. John Conover of that city. It was taken in September, 

 1904, near the base of Point Pelee by Mr. Dan Goyeau. Mr. 

 Conover had all his things packed ready for moving to another 

 city and the specimen was not situated so that a critical examination 

 could be made. It was, as far as we could see, pure white, without 

 plumes or markings of any kind. We based our identification on 

 the color of the legs which were painted yellow. Whether this 

 was their original color, or the taxidermist's idea of the "eternal 

 fitness of things" there is no means of knowing. We, however, 

 assume the former, and in that belief, place the specimen under 

 this heading with a question mark. 



Nycticorax nycticorax nsevius. Black-crowned Night Heron. 

 — Though said to be a common bird on the St. Clair Flats by 

 Langille (1883), it is now but rarely seen in this section. We have 

 a few straggling records for the species at various points from the 

 Flats to the Lower Detroit River, so it evidently occurs as a strag- 

 gling wanderer once in a while. 



Steganopus tricolor. Wilson's Phalarope. — Records of this 

 species are very rare. In addition to Taverner' s record (Auk, 

 XXIII, p. 335) and that of J. C. Wood {ibid., p. 334) referring to 

 the same place, and likely to the same individual, Mr. Campion 

 informs us that he mounted a high-plumaged female, taken on the 

 Flats in May, 1906, by Mr. Clarence Conely of Detroit, in whose 

 possession it now is. It is interesting to observe that after all 

 these years of non-observation of this species, two should have 

 been taken at nearly the same time and within twenty miles of 

 each other. There is a possibility, of course, that this last one 

 is one of the same individuals recorded by Mr. Wood, as the locality 

 where it was taken is directly on what would appear to be the 

 natural channel of its migration route to the north. 



Actodromas fuscicollis. White-rumped Sandpiper. — Mr. 

 Wood's statement in 'The Auk' (XXIII, pp. 458, 459) that this 

 species is common in eastern Michigan we received with a good 

 deal of surprise. The above record and that of Mr. Taverner's 

 {ibid., p. 335) are the first that we have been able to find for this 

 section. Mr. Swales has known Mr. Wood for a great many 

 years intimately — in fact up to the spring of 1904 they were con- 

 stant field companions, but in none of their ornithological talks 



