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Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club. 



Capture of Uria troile (Murre) at 

 Gibralter, Mich. 



Dear Friend: — I have the pleasure of 

 sending you an account of the capture of 

 a bird whose presence in Michigan has 

 been questioned. I can find no record for 

 this state, but Mr. Covert says it has been 

 reported. This bird, a fine ad. male, 

 was shot from a Hock of several near 

 Gibralter, Mich., Dec, 26th, 1896, by 

 some duck hunters. They did not know 

 the bird, so brought it to Mr. J. H. 

 Butler of River Range. As he is an old 

 duck hunter and had never seen the bird, 

 he sent it to me to be mounted and identified. 

 It is now at my office at the University of 

 Michigan museum. It is Uria troile, or 

 Murre. 



Three Snowy Owls were killed by W. 

 W. Belknap at St. Clair Flats and sent to 

 me Feby. 9th. 



Mr. Covert received six Old Squaw 

 Ducks from Jack Simms of East Tawas. 



A boy brought me a fine ad. male Redpoll 

 taken from a large flock near here on 

 Feby. 8th. 



Received four Short-eared Owls from 

 Lenawee Co. the other day, and in 

 December last a fine Acadian Owl was 

 killed near here. 



N. A. Wood. 



Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Dr. Gibbs reports Uria troile, "occasion- 

 ally taken on Lake Superior. " (Annotated 

 list of Birds of Michigan, 1879, page 496.) 



We will hope to hear from Dr. Gibbs 

 concerning the early reports upon this 

 species in our next issue. — Ed. 



The Migration Work. 



The Migration Committee will continue 

 their work this spring, and blanks will be 

 sent to all who aided in the work last year, 

 and to anyone else who may request them. 

 Residents in the state should apply to Mr. 

 L. W. Watkins, Manchester, Michigan. 



Commencing this spring, the committee 

 will enlarge their field, taking in Illinois, 

 Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and 

 Ontario; Mr. W. Earle Mulliken, 191 

 First Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich., taking- 

 charge of the work. Persons in these 

 states should write him at once. 



A list of the stations will be printed in 

 an early issue of this bulletin. 



PERSONALS. 



Prof. Walter B. Barrows is doing splendid work 

 in the interests of natural history in this state, 

 through his instructive talks upon economic zoology 

 at the State Farmers' Institutes being held this 

 winter. 



Mr. Lynds Jones of Oherlin, Ohio, is the efficient 

 editor of the Bulletin of the Wilson Ornithological 

 Chapter of the Agassiz. 



Mrs. Estelle O. Kelsey of Grosse He made the 

 editor-in-chief a pleasant little visit at Fairview 

 Farm Jan. 18th and 19th. 



Bryant Walker, Esq., of Detroit. Michigan's 

 expert conchologist, spent Dec. 28th in looking over 

 the land shells at the University of Michigan museum. 



Mr. Leon J. Cole of Grand Rapids, gives interesting 

 notes regarding a peculiarly marked specimen of the 

 Lesser Scaup Duck, in The Osprey, Jan., '97, in 

 which the feathers of breast and belly are strongly 

 tipped with rufous, the neck, back, secondaries and 

 tail showing traces of the same color. 



Mr. Bradshaw Hall Swales of Detroit is now a 

 student in the U. of M. at Ann Arbor, and a member 

 of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. 



Mr. L. D. Watkins of Manchester, is chairman of 

 the recently appointed committee on anthropology 

 in the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, and 

 is also one of its committee of historians. Mr. 

 Watkins came to Michigan from New Hampshire 

 with his father in 1834, and has since made Fairview 

 Farm his home. 



Mr. A. B. Durfee, the veteran collector of Grand 

 Rapids, has been wisely chosen president of our 

 Club for another year. 



Mr. Mark B. Mills of Macon, was elected register 

 of deeds by an overwhelming majority in Lenawee 

 County on the republican ticket. 



It has been a pleasure to receive kind words from 

 such veteran ornithologists as Purdy, Trombley, 

 Covert, Gibbs, Miles, Boies and Steere, and to know 

 that they are so interested in the work and success 

 of the Michigan Club. 



Mr. T. L. Haukinson of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College, must be acknowledged the state's authority 



on stalking shore-birds. 



Ask Cole and Mulliken. 



Prof. A. J. Cook is already one of the most popular 

 lecturers in Californian institute work, and though 

 so far away, those in his home state are personally 

 interested in his success. 



Dr. Robert H. Wolcott of the University of 

 Nebraska, promises the editor-in-chief a visit next 

 season, and another of the old-fashioned (if Covert 

 comes too), red-letter collecting trips is promised at 

 this end. 



Mr. E. W. Durfee of Lordsburg, New Mexico, is 

 home on a sick leave. He had a severe attack of 

 mountain fever, but has entirely recovered now. 

 He expects to return west this spring. 



