AX ADDITION TO THE AVIFAUNA OF WISCONSIN. 
By Hexry L. Ward. 
The Dovekie, Alle alle, is properly a bird of the Atlantic coast, 
breeding from latitude 69° northward ; in winter coming south, 
occasionally to Long Island and New Jersey. It has been reported 
from Pennsylvania and Virginia on the south and from the Detroit 
River, Michigan, on the west as accidental occurrences. 
Early in February last Dr. C. W. Beemer, of Port Washington, 
Wis., informed me that he had a devekie which was killed on Jan. 
nth, 1908 by some boys hunting along the ice fringe of Lake 
Michigan at that point, and who had brought the bird to him for 
determination. Dr. Beemer had given it to a local taxidermist to 
be mounted. A few weeks later he presented the specimen to the 
Public ^luseum of the City of Milwaukee. 
The sex was not determined by the taxidermist. The specimen 
appears to be an adult in ordinary winter plumage. 
While this accidental occurrence increases the known western 
range of this species and adds one more to the birds recorded 
from Wisconsin yet it has no special significance. However, it 
adds another to our list of such freaks, showing how far a bird 
may wander from its proper habitat, as instanced previously by the 
Man-o'-War Bird taken in 1880 in the Milwaukee River near the 
city and now preserved in this museum, and of Clarke's Nut- 
cracker taken on the edge of the city in 1875 and preserved for 
some years by Dr. Peckham. In these instances we have birds be- 
longing to the Atlantic and to the Pacific coast regions and from 
the tropics meeting at this locality. 
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