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To Mr. Garman, therefore, belongs the credit of its discovery within 

 the State of IlUnois. 



2. Buteo harlani. Harlan's Buzzard. — Mr. Chas. K. Worthen, 

 of Warsaw, IlUnois, informs me that in March, 1879, he collected a fine 

 adult male of this species, near that place. " Two of them were seen at 

 the time, flying up the Mississippi River, apparently following the flight 

 of Water-fowl which were then coming north in great numbers." 



3. Platalea ajaja. Roseate Spoonbill. — Although this species, 

 like the Parrakeet and Ivory-billed Woodpecker, may not now occur 

 within the limits of the State, I have the word of a reliable collector, Mr. 

 A. Wolle, of Baltimore, Md., that some twenty years since it was not un- 

 common in certain localities in the Mississippi bottoms, in Illinois, below 

 Saint Louis, where Mr. W. obtained a number of specimens. It may 

 still occur in secluded localities in the extreme southern part of the State. 



4. Pelecanus fuscus. Brown Pelican. — The occurrence of this 

 maritime species so far inland is certainly very remarkable ; but there 

 seems no doubt of its having wandered, at least on one occasion, so far 

 from the Gulf coast. Mr. Worthen writes me that he " saw a specimen of 

 this bird flying over Lima Lake, a large shallow body of water ten miles 

 below here [Warsaw, Illinois], in October, 1873. The bird was not over 

 a hundred yards from myself and two or three others, and we watched 

 it for several minutes, none of us having ever seen anything like it alive, 

 before or since. It was flying toward the Mississippi River at the time, 

 and though we all looked for it afterward it could not be found. Now I 

 know that P. fuscus is considered a strictly maritime bird ; but if it was not 

 P, fuscus, what could it have been ? It had the color, bill, and size of that 



species I am satisfied in my own mind, and give the facts for what 



they are worth." 



5. Graculus mexicanus. Mexican Cormorant. — Mr. Worthen 

 reports that last spring he " received a skin of this species labelled ' Near 

 Cairo, Illinois.' It was in summer (not adult) plumage." He was not 

 able to trace the specimen, so that there is room for doubt as to the local- 

 ity. Still, there can hardly be a question of its occurrence in Southern 

 Illinois, considering the known range of the species, and the locality given 

 on the label is very probably correct. 



6. Stercorarius buffoni. Long-tailed Jaeger. — For the follow- 

 ing concerning the occurrence of this species in Illinois, I am indebted to 

 Prof. W. H. Ballou, of Evanston, who communicated the facts to me as 

 long ago as March, 1878 : "It may be of some value to you to know that I 

 picked up dead on the Mississippi shore, near Cairo, Illinois, a specimen of 

 Buffon's or the Long-tailed Jaeger. The specimen was obtained in No- 

 vember, 1876. It might have been killed, or died, at the head-waters of 

 the Mississippi or Missouri River, and floated down, for all I know. It 

 was too much decayed to preserve, and seemed to have been dead a num- 

 ber of days. After an examination by myself and a friend, we were com- 

 pelled to throw it away." 



