1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 259 



Family PELECANID^ Pelicans. 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (125). American White Pelican. 

 Hare 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. TL). 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 LAMELLIROSTJRAL SWIMMERS. 



Family ANATID.E Ducks, Geese, and Swans. 

 Merganser americanus (129). American Merganser. 



This, the largest of the " fishermen," 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- 



