1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 259 



Family PELECANID^ Pelicans. 

 Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (125). American White Pelican. 



Rare straggler. "There appear to be three well authenti- 

 cated instances of the capture of this bird in our vicinity. 

 1. Near Alexandria, Va., April, 1864, by C. Drexler, and pre- 

 sented to the Smithsonian. 2. Opposite Washington, on the 

 Virginia bank of the Potomac, fall of 1864 ; shot by John 

 Ferguson, and seen and identified by several persons who have 

 communicated the fact to us. 3. Near Alexandria, Va., Octo- 

 ber, 1878, killed by John Haxhurst, and seen by a gentleman 

 connected with the National Museum " (H. M. Smith and Wm. 

 Palmer, Auk, v, 147). "A stray Pelican at Oakland, Md., by 

 Sportsman," is recorded (Auk, iv, 345). 



Pelecanus fuscus (126). Brown Pelican. 



Exclusively maritime, " from Tropical America to the Caro- 

 linas " (A. O. U.). Captain Crumb noted them at Cobb's Island, 

 in the fall of 1881 (Birds Vas., 44), and "Turnbull records one 

 specimen shot off Sandy Hook in 1837, in summer " (Birds 

 E. Pa. and N. J., 52). In the old collection of the Academy 

 was a specimen from the lower Potomac (Uhler). 



Order ANSERES LAMELLIROSTBAL SWIMMERS. 



Family ANATID^: Ducks, Geese, and Swans. 

 Merganser americanus (129). American Merganser. 



This, the largest of the " fishermen/ 7 is a winter resident, 

 from Sept. 29, ('94), to March 29, ('93 Resler) ; common on 

 our larger waters. 



On March 24 ('95) I watched a bunch of eight for quite a 

 while on the Gunpowder Falls ; they were diving in the swift 

 running stream, just above the dead water of Loch Raven. 

 Mr. Shriver says, "something of a rarity at Cumberland, but 

 I have seen a number of them years ago ; none lately." 



" In the ornothological report of the late Judge Libhart, pub- 

 lished about twelve or fifteen years ago in the history of Lan- 



