:256 OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION. 



ORDER LONGIPENNES. LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS. 

 FAMILY LARID/E. GULLS AND TERNS. 



SUBFAMILY LAR1N/E. GULLS. 

 GENUS LARUS. LINN/EUS. 



4. Tiarus argentatus smiths onianus (COUE?.). 



American Herring Gull. 



Very rare transient visitor. Appearing irregularly on ponds and the larger 

 streams, generally singly or in pairs. A fine adult specimen in the collection of Mr. 

 John Blandford, of Wooster, was shot near the town, from a flock of four, in the 

 spring of 1873. 



5. Larus Philadelphia (ORD). 



Bonaparte's Gull. 



A rare and irregular transient visitor; noted most frequently in the spring. 

 Individuals sometimes linger for several days along Killbuck Creek, or in the vicinity 

 of the lakes and larger ponds. In the spring of 1879, four were seen and one shot on 

 a mill pond near Wooster. 



ORDER STEGANOPODES. TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS. 

 FAMILY PELECANID^E. PELICANS. 



GENUS PELECANUS. LINNAEUS. 

 SUBGENUS CYRTOPELICANUS. REICHENBACH. 



$. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (GMEL.). 

 American White Pelican. 



Only a single specimen is known to have been taken. This is an adult in breed- 

 ing plumage, and was shot in the summer of 1886, along Killbuck Creek in the south- 

 ern portion of the County. No others were seen at the time. This bird was 

 preserved and mounted for Dr. J. C. McMurray, of Shreve, from whom the above 

 particulars of its capture were obtained. Dr. J. M. Wheaton mentions 1 but one spec- 

 imen in breeding plumage as having been taken in the State. 



1 Geological survey of Ohio IV, 1882, p. 42. 



