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Percy S. Selous of Greenville and show exceptionally good work. Many of 

 the older specimens were mounted by College students at various times 

 during the last thirty years and of course few of them are "in the highest 

 style of the art," but are more valuable now, since the species have become 

 rare. The collection includes one or more specimens of every species of 

 owl known to inhabit the state, and each represented by specimens actually 

 taken within its limits. Among these are a Barn Owl, two Hawk Owls, a 

 Great Gray, and Richardson's. In addition to the mounted specimens the 

 museum has nearly a thousand bird-skins, including some very nice series 

 and a few record specimens. Among the latter is a Western Meadow-lark 

 taken by Mr. O. B. Warren in Marquette County in 1897. The foundation 

 of this collection of skins was laid in 1893, when the College obtained from 

 Dr. Morris Gibbs of Kalamazoo his collection of about 500 specimens. In 

 1897 one hundred more skins were obtained' from Mr. E. D. Sanderson of 

 Lansing, and about 50 more from Mr. Warren of Marquette County. In 

 1901 we acquired the bird collection of Leon J. Cole, some 200 skins, and 

 each year since 1893 the officers and students of the College have been 

 adding specimens to this collection. 



The collection of birds' eggs is by no means as complete as that of the 

 birds themselves, but it contains several rarities and a large number of well 

 authenticated sets. — W, B, B. 



THREE RARE MICHIGAN BIRDS. 



Mr. Louis J. Eppinger, the taxidermist of this city, received during the 

 past few months three specimens which are worthy of mention : 



Colymbus holhcellii (Holboell's Grebe.) — An adult female of this species 

 was shot near Capac (St. Clair County), Michigan, February 15th, 1904, by 

 W. J. Lester. This state has few records for this species but like other 

 rare waterfowl many are shot by sportsmen and left to decay. The author 

 met with this bird at Niagara Falls, the 20th of last September. (See Auk 

 XXI, p. 276.) 



Nycticorax nycticorax naruius (Black-crowned Night Heron). — On May 

 5th, 1904, an adult male "Quawk" was shot by Wm. Daily at the St. Clair 

 Flats. This species is rarer in this state, I believe, than is generally sup- 

 posed. Various reports have reached me from time to time of some herony 

 of night herons, but investigation invariably proves them to be other jnem- 

 bers of the family. This species, however, probably breeds in the state. 



Falco peregrinus anatum (Duck Hawk). — A beautiful female of the 

 "Noble Peregrine" was shot on the outskirts of Detroit by A. B. Schroder 

 on March 25th, 1904. It was probably following the wild fowl on the Detroit 

 River. This species is commoner in the northern part of the state, where it 

 possibly breeds. The above specimen makes the first record for Wayne 

 County. Alexander W. Blain, Jr. 



Detroit, Mich. 



