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Ohio. A few years ago I mounted a specimen which was killed out of a flock of 

 eight or ten near Springfield, Ohio. In 1882 the late Dr. Wheaton wrote as follows 

 concerning this bird: "Rare migrant; probably occasional summer resident. Mr. 

 WInslow includes it in his list of birds of Northern Ohio, and it has been reported 

 to me as breeding within a few years in the vicinity of Toledo. Mr. Langdon 

 mentions two specimens taken in the vicinity of Cincinnati. I have never seen 

 the bird in this vicinity, and though I have frequently heard of its occurrence, 

 the identification has never been unquestionable. Both this bird and the Blue 

 Heron are sometimes confounded under the common name of Blue Crane." 



* * REDSHANK. Totanus totanus (Linn.) 



The European Redshank has been recorded as North American on the ground 

 that a specimen was takeil in the Hudson Bay region and was formerly in British 

 Museum (Of. Faun. Bor. — ^Am. H, 1831, p. 391). The bird breeds nearly throughout 

 the whole of Europe, placing its nest in a mere hollow of the ground. A set of four 

 eggs taken in North Britain May 7, 1891, exhibit the following dimensions: 1.71x 

 1.22, 1.75x1.27, 1.72x1.24, 1.76x1.26 inches. They are pyriform in shape; the ground- 

 color being of a pale bulf; this is spotted and blotched with a rich seal brown, 

 mingled with under shell markings of gray and lavender, these tending to form a 

 ring about the large ends. 



286. 1. PBAZAR'S OYSTER-CATCHEE. Swmatopus frdzari Brewst. 



This species was found breeding byA. W.Anthony on San Roque Island in June, 

 1897. Mr. Cl-andall has a set of two eggs, taken by Mr. Anthony June 21. The 

 nest from which these were taken was a simple hollow on top of a bluff; it was 

 lined with pebbles. The color of one egg Is creamy buff, the other more of an 

 olive buff. Both specimens are spotted and blotched with brownish-black and 

 purplish-gray shell markings. Their sizes are 2.33x1.52, 2.35x1.52 inches, respect- 

 ively. Mr. Orandall says: "In comparing these eggs with sets of the American 

 and European Oyster-catchers in my collection, I find the shade of ground-color 

 is exactly midway between the two species, darker than the American and lighter 

 than the BJuropean. In shape they are elongate ovate." 



352a. AliASKAN BAItB EAGLE. HaUwetws leucocephalalus alascanus. 



Mr. C. H. Townsend says of this new subspecies as' follows: (Proc. Biological 

 Society, Wash., Vol. XI, pp. 145-146, June 9, 1897.) "In forty specimens examined 

 from localities between Florida and Alaska there is a regular increase in size north- 

 ward. Eagles from Northern States are larger than those from Florida and 

 Louisiana. In addition to the other differences in size, the bill of .the Alaskan bird 

 is wider, while the edging to the feathers, especially on the wing coverts, is both 

 lighter and broader. The egg of the northern bird is distinctly larger, the average 

 of sixteen specimens being 73.5x57.5 mm., while that of forty-five Florida specimens 

 is 69x53.5 mm." Mr. Orandall has a set of two eggs of this variety, taken by Mr. 

 Geo. G. Cantwell at Houcan, Alaska, May 19, 1897. The nest was placed in a dead 

 spruce seventy feet from the ground. It was made of coarse sticks and lined with 

 moss. The eggs measure 2.94x2.37; 2.88x2.35 inches, respectively. In shape and 

 color they are the same as those of the Bald Eagle of the South, but the shell ap-. 

 pears to be thicker. 



