o 1: The Wilson Bulletin — No. 82. 



of this bird : " The claim of this bird to a place in the Mich- 

 igan fauna rests mainly on the statement of A. B. Covert, of 

 Ann Arbor, who says that he killed a specimen in September, 

 1878, on the Honey Creek marshes, four miles west of Ann 

 Arbor, and that another was killed iVpril 21, 1879, by C. H. 

 Manley, in Livingston County. The latter specimen is said 

 to- be mounted and in the possession of Capt. Manley. The 

 first specimen was for a time in the possession of Mr. Her- 

 bert Randall, of Ann Arbor, but we have not been able to 

 examine either specimen." These records are undoubtedly 

 erroneous, and there is no evidence at hand to support them. 

 No other ornithologist appears to have seen or known of the 

 existence of these specimens. The last A. O. U. Check-List 

 does not admit this record and it should be eliminated. 



10. Ictinia mississippiensis. Mississippi Kite. — This south- 

 ern kite is included as a Michigan bird on the strength of a 

 specimen said to have been taken many years ago and re- 

 corded by Mr. D. D. Hughes in a manuscript list of the birds 

 of the state. No trace of this specimen can be found and no 

 statement as to who' examined it. The wn-iter has not seen 

 the manuscript list referred to, but the record is entirely too 

 vague and unsatisfactory, and is not included in the A. O. \j. 

 Check-List of 1910. 



11. Sayornis sayus. Say's Phoebe. — This bird is admitted 

 on the authority of Charles Fox,^ who says : " Say's Fly- 

 catcher (a) Musicapa Saya." (a) refers to the footnote. 

 " Killed near Ov/asso, Shiawassee County, July, 18513. " 

 Miles, in the first biennial report, says: " *-lla. Sayornis 

 sayus Baird. Say's Flycatcher." - The note *41a refers to 

 "Sayornis sayus Bd. on the authority of Rev. Charles Fox, 

 who shot a specimen at Owosso, Shiawassee County, July, 

 1853. The species in the catalog marked 'a' were obtained 

 at Crosse He, Wayne County, by Fox, and are given on his 

 authority." As stated by Barrows these two records, with 

 little doubt, refer to the same bird which was taken near 



'The Birds of Michigan, p. IGl. 



'Miles, M., ill First Bien. Kept. Geol. Surv.. Michigan. ISGI. p. 

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