Wyoming Birds. ; 83 



HYPOTHETICAL LIST 



A few records are not sufficiently well authenticated to 

 warrant tHeir being placed in the regular list, so are placed 

 here. 



133. Anas rubripes: Black Duck. 



Hunters who were familiar with this duck in the east re- 

 ported to Mr. Lockwood that they had taken specimens 

 near Laramie. 



174. Branta nigricana: Black Brant. 



Our only record of this bird is from Clearwaters, who re- 

 ports that he saw a small flock that was probably of this 

 species. He did not secure, a specimen. 



.215. Coturnicops noveboracensis: Yellow Rail. 



Blackwelder records birds which he says appeared to be of 

 this species, but none were taken, so the record is ques- 

 tionable. 



310a. Meleagris gallepavo silvestris: Wild Turkey. 



Glearwaters records that he has seen a specimen which 

 bore a tag, probably in Knight's handwriting, which indi- 

 cated that the specimen was taken near the southern bound- 

 ary of the state. Prof. William Reed reports them from 

 abount 2S miles south of the Wyoming boundary. 



337. Buteo borealis harlani: Harlan's Hawk. 

 Lockwood reports one or two specimens. 



356b. Faleo perigrinus pealei: Peale's Falcon. 



Mr. Lockwood reports having mounted a wfell-marked spec- 

 imen at Casper. In a letter he expresses doubt of the cor- 

 rectness of his determination because of lack of proper 

 means for determination at hand. 



368. Strix varia variat: Barred Owl. 



The records of this Owl in Wyoming are very unsatisfac- 

 tory. Clearwaters reports that there is a mounted speci- 

 men at Newcastle, which is said to have been taken near 

 there. In April, 1912, Walker observed an Owl in the Med- 



