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THE BIRDS OF WISCONSIN. 
FAniLY ALCID^E: AUKS, MURRE5 AND PUFFINS. 
Synthliboramphus antiqnus (Gmel.). ANCIENT MURRELET. 
A single specimen of this species was shot in October, 1882, 
on Lake Koshkonong, by Rev. G. E. Gordon, of Milwaukee. 
Its occurrence there was, of course, purely accidental. As the 
opportunity occurs we will here correct one of the numerous 
errors in that most unfortunate bulletin, "The Birds o\ 
Michigan," by A. J. Cook, where other specimens of this 
species are accredited to Wisconsin as having been taken by 
us (1). This is an utterly unaccountable error. The bird 
taken by Mr. Gordon and noted in the Auk of January, 1SS4, 
by Air. Geo. B. Sennett, is unquestionably the only Wisconsin 
record. 
ORDER LONGIPENNES: LONQ= WINGED 
SWIMMERS. 
FAHILY STERCORARIID^E: SKUAS AND JAEGERS. 
Stercorarius pomariims (Temm.~) POMARINE JAEGER. 
Rare winter visitor on Lake Michigan. Early in October, 
1ST!), we saw three specimens of this jaeger on Green Bay. 
They were close about the boat while the fishermen were 
emptying their nets, and we had the opportunity of watching 
them for an. hour or more. A week later we had a letter from 
Thure Kumlien, at Lake Koshkonong, informing us that he 
had secured one specimen from a group of three that had 
visited the lake. Another was secured later in the fall by a 
hunter and mounted for him. We have positively seen this 
bird on several occasions on Lake Michigan late in the fall. It 
is recorded by Nelson from Evanston and Chicago. 
1. Where Mr. Cook obtained all these records, I am unable to say. 
Mr. Gordon's bird was sent to Milwaukee to be mounted; a friend called 
my attention to it, and as the taxidermist's chief interest in the bird was 
to get his pay for the mounting, I induced him to let me take it. I made 
a colored drawing and sent it to Prof. Ridgway. In the meantime the 
owner called for his bird and I had to give it up. My notice prepared 
for the Auk did not reach the editors until after the late Mr. Bennett's 
article. From this information Mr. Cook may have made his unfortunate 
blunder. — L. K. 
