March, 1907.] Fossil Land and Fresh Water Mollusca 
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KEY TO OHIO LOCUSTS IN WINTER CONDITION. 
Julio C. Ortega. 
• Robinia L. Trees or shrubs with alternate leaf-scars and 
usually with stipular spines; terminal buds absent; leaf-sears 
covering the small clustered or superposed axillary buds; the 
buds sunken and hardly projecting beyond the surface; pith 
cylindrical and of medium size. 
1. Twigs glabrous; not glandular; a large slender tree with rough bark. 
R. pseudacacia L. Common Locust 
1. Twigs very glandular or bristly. 2. 
2. Twigs very bristly; with long glandular emergences; a much branch¬ 
ing shrub. R. hispida L. Bristly Locust 
2. Twigs very glandular, and with short gland-tipped emergences; a 
small tree with rough bark. R. viscosa L. Clammy Locust 
A Species of Hawk New to Ohio.- —On Wednesday, Feb¬ 
ruary 6th, Professor W. C. Mills called my attention to a hawk 
which had been sent to him by M. Aimer Hegler of Washington 
Court House, Ohio. The bird proves to be a specimen of the 
Gvrfalcon, Falco rusticolus gyrfalco, which has not been reported 
from the state before. Mr. Hegler writes as follows: “This 
hawk was caught in a steel trap while feeding upon a hen, but 
Mr. Carr who caught it is not sure that it killed the chicken itself, 
or whether some other hawk did the killing. It was caught tw’o 
miles west of Washington Court House on Wednesday, January 
30, 1907, on the farm of Jacob Carr.” 
The species is northern in its distribution and habitually wan¬ 
ders southward during winter weather, specimens being recorded 
for Kansas, Michigan and some of the New England States. The 
specimen was presented to the Zoological Museum, and is now 
being mounted so it may be kept in good condition as evidence 
of the first record of this fine species for Ohio. 
James S. Hike. 
A Bird New to Ohio. —While comparing species of Ohio 
birds in my collection recently, with state records, I was sur¬ 
prised to discover that Leconte’s sparrow, Ammordamus lecontei 
hitherto had not been recorded for the state. I have a specimen 
which I shot in a swampy meadow, near Cincinnati, Ohio, 
April 5th, 1880. 
Chas. Dury, Cincinnati. 
