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For my Michigan records I am indebted to Mr. N. A. Wood and the col- 
lections of the Museum of the University of Michigan and especially to Prof. 
W. B. Barrows, of the Agricultural College, who has rendered me great aid 
in advice from the materials he has gathered for his forthcoming list of the 
birds of Michigan. 
My Ontario records have all been verified by Mr. J. H. Fleming, of 
Toronto, whose work in eliminating and substantiating the various records 
for his Province has rendered his aid invaluable. 
It is much to be regretted that our records are not fuller in various 
sections. The whole north shore of Lake Superior and Huron seem ornitho- 
logically a terra incognita and the amount of careful work in the Northern 
Peninsular leaves much to be desired. The one season’s work done at Isle 
Royal by the University of Michigan Survey is hardly enough to do more 
than raise interesting suggestions without furnishing data enough to satisfy 
the interest thus awakened. Until more information is gathered many of 
the following conclusions can only be regarded as tentative and advanced 
more to awaken interest in the problem than as final and absolute conclusions. 
AMERICAN AVOCET. 
Habitat—United States and British Province. Rare now in Eastern United 
States. Only occasional in New England. Abounding in the West, espe- 
cially in the alkaline regions as those of the Milk River, Yellowstone, 
Utah, etc. 
Wisconsin—considered exceptionally rare—5 records. 
Indiana—Rare migrant—1 record for Indiana—Calumet Lake. 
Michigan—No records. 
Ohio—1 Cincinnati; 1 St. Mary’s Reservoir; 1 Cleveland; 1 Lebanon 
Reservoir. 
Ontario—Three individuals taken at Rondeau at different times; 2 speci- 
mens, Toronto, June and fall. 
SNOWY PLOVER. 
Habitat—Chiefly west of Rocky Mountains, Utah, California Coast; breed- 
ing and wintering; also coast of Texas. 
Wisconsin—No record. 
Indiana—No record. 
Michigan—No record. 
Ohio—No record. 
Ontario—2 records, Toronto. 
WESTERN RED-TAILED HAWK. 
AHabitat—Western United States at large, particularly United States from 
Rocky Mountains to Pacific. 
Wisconsin—Of but rare occurrence. 
Indiana—No records. 
Michigan—No records. 
Ohio—1, Franklin Co. 
Ontario—1, St. Thomas; 1, Toronto. 
SWAINSON’S HAWK. 
Habitat—Western North America from Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas and 
Texas to the Pacifi Coast; north to arctic regions; south to Buenos 
