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lection, and the identity is unquestionable. The commissure is typical 

 and the maxillary tubercles, though not prominent, are present. We 

 thus are able to tally another species for Colorado. — A. H. Felger, Denver, 

 Colo. 



The Whistling Swan at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. — Two Whistling 

 Swans (Olor columbianus) were shot at Squibnocket, Martha's Vineyard, 

 Mass., by Mr. Gardiner Hammond. One was taken November 28, 1906, 

 and the other the next day, November 29. These specimens are in my 

 collection. — John E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 



Whistling Swan (Olor columbianus) in Massachusetts. — Recent 

 records of the occurrence of the Whistling Swan in this State are suffi- 

 ciently rare to warrant mentioning the capture of three fine adult speci- 

 mens on Nantucket on Nov. 29, 1906. A party of sportsmen, consisting 

 of Messrs. J. E. Flynn, H. K. Perkins, and J. H. Ashley of Bridgewater, 

 and L. A. Harvard of Taunton, Mass., while duck shooting from a blind 

 on Tacacha Pond, near Quidnet, Nantucket, saw three large white birds 

 alight in the pond which they at once recognized as swans. They were 

 exceedingly wary at first, but after much patient waiting they finally 

 swam up near enough to risk a shot at long range, and all three of the 

 birds were eventually secured after shooting them over several times, 

 at the expenditure of some seventeen shots. 



I saw all three of the birds, on exhibition in a market in Bridgewater, 

 and succeeded in securing one of them, an adult female, for my collection; 

 it measured 51 £ inches in length and 84 inches in extent. Another was 

 secured for the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, and the 

 third was mounted for Mr. J. E. Flynn. — A. C. Bent, Taunton, Mass. 



Ardea egretta in New Mexico. — In view of the increasing scarcity 

 of all the Egrets the undersigned wishes to put on record the capture of 

 a specimen of Ardea egretta, on Nov. 5, 1906. It was shot on the lower 

 part of the Rio Mimbres, about 20 miles above Deming, having been 

 flushed amongst some willows bordering the Canaigre irrigating lake, 

 the altitude of this lake being about 4400 feet; the weather was about 

 freezing. The bird, an adult female, was alone and in excellent plumage. 

 — E. L. Munson, Major, Surgeon, U. S. A. 



Late Occurrence of the King Rail (Rallus elegans) in Wisconsin. — 

 Dec. 19 last, a live King Rail (Rallus elegans) was brought to me by a 

 boy who had caught it that day in a marsh on the shores of Beaver Dam 

 Lake about two miles from this city. I questioned the lad as to the 

 existence of any open spring of water in the vicinity and he assured me 

 there was none. The rail was seen running through the grass as the boy 

 had skated up to the marshy shore. The bird died the following night 

 and on skinning the specimen I could observe no evidence whatever of 

 an injury of any nature, though the bird was greatly emaciated. — W. E. 

 Snyder, Beaver Dam, Wis. 



