APRIL, 1902. NOTES ON THE RARER BIRDS OF DODGE COUNTY, WIS. 
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Brief Notes on Some of the Rarer Birds of Dodge Co., Wis, 
By E. SNYDER, Beaver Dam, Wis. 
It is not claimed by the author that the birds enumerated be- 
low are rare birds throughout the state — the list referring only 
to this county. To my knowledge some of these occur in con- 
siderable numbers elsewhere in Wisconsin. My observations 
date from Oct. 12, 1888. 
Larus Philadelphia-Bonapart's Gull. — A male was taken 
on the lake here in October, 1893, and 5 birds were brought to 
me the past fall — when they were quite common, in small flocks. 
Larus Franklini — Franklin's Rosy Gull. — Two specimens 
— (Nos. 4526 and 4527, coll. of W. E. Snyder) — both taken on 
Sept. 18, 1901. They were in company and none others have been 
seen or taken to my knowledge. One was an ad 9 with bright 
rosy plumage (No. 4526), the other an immature ^ . 
Sterna Tchegrava-Caspian Tern.— Two records — one taken 
Oct. 4, 1896 — too badly decomposed when it came into my hands 
to sex or preserve — and one taken Oct. 5, 1900 (No. 3236, coll. of 
W. E. S.) 
Anhinga Anhinga-Anhinga. — Mr. Chatfield shot one here 
some 20 years ago. He described his bird to me and says he 
knows the Cormorant (P. dilpohus), and I am satisfied of its 
identity. 
Clangula Hyemalis — Old Squaw. — Five records — two 
taken at Fox Lake on Oct. 29, 1898; two taken there on Nov. i, 
1898, and I mounted one shot at the same place on Nov. 5, 1899. 
The first four were not sexed — as they were in the hands of a 
Milwaukee gunner who would not part with them — yet they were 
all 9 9 or perhaps some immature $ $. They lacked the 
long tail feathers and black breasts of the adult. The fifth (No. 
1853) proved on discussion to be a 9 . 
Ardea Egretta — American Egret. — Mr. George A. Mor- 
rison, once a taxidermist at Fox Lake, but now residing in Colo- 
rado, reports the capture of one at Randolph in May, 1895. It was 
mounted by Mr. Morrison. I did not see the bird, but presume 
the identification was correctly made, as Mr. Morrison was a 
painstaking student of birds. 
