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ernments cannot so readily create and perpetrate them, private 
citizens happily placed, and with the means and inclination to do 
so, can—taking the results of this Louisiana enterprise as an il 
lustration. B. Tie 
EXCEPTIONAL OHIO RECORDS. 
The unusual opening of winter in December and its continuance 
into the early part of January put the most of Ohio on the win- 
ter basis, as far as bird life is concerned, at least two weeks 
earlier than usual. From a purely local standpoint this condition 
should result in the influx of some of the more hardy winter birds 
early and bring into the region birds which pay a visit to the state 
only once in a number of years. Reports coming from northern 
Ohio indicate that there was a decided influx of at least two ex- 
ceptional species. 
Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrula). During the greater 
part of December, all of January, and until February 17, a flock 
of a half dozen birds lived in two northern spy apple trees, which 
still contained some frozen fruit, at the writer’s home in Birming- 
ham. They left when the robins came and worried them. Their 
peculiar squeaky twittering note was constantly mingled with the 
conversation coming from a neighboring hen yard. ‘This visita- 
tion seems to be the first recorded one for this county, 
Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina). Since 
the 1890-1 visitation to northern Ohio there sesm to be no other 
records until this winter, just twenty years later. The exact date 
of first occurrence is lacking, and is of minor importance since for 
Oberlin a flock of six birds haye been present (is still present) 
since early in December. Mr. H. G. Morse reports one brought to 
him on January 21st, shot from a flock which was about a mile 
south of Huron. Mr. Frank T. Cartwright, Jr., writes me that 
there have been two of these birds in Delaware this winter. Mr. 
E. A. Doolittle, of Painesville, Ohio, reminds me that the record 
of this species on March 20, 30, and 31, 1909, which he reported 
to me at that time, Dever appeared in the Bulletin, through an 
oversight of mine. I am glad to correct that omission as far as 
possible now by calling especial attention to the 1909 occurrence, 
which seems to be the only one for Ohio for that winter. Mr. 
Doolittle also reports a single bird at his home on March 18 and 
16 of this year. 
These records, with reports of another visitation to New Eng- 
land, seem to indicate that conditions north were again such that 
the birds were forced to find new feeding places. We may proba- 
