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IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
The first record for Johnson county is based on a specimen 
killed in January, 1893, by Mr. Wolf. The skull only was 
kept as a basis for the record. 
BIRDS. 
Black throated loon, Urinator arcticus, Linn. Burlington, Iowa. 
Paul Bartsch. 
Old squaw, Glangula liy emails, (Linn.) Burlington, Iowa. 
November 29, 1892. Paul Bartsch. 
White winged scoter, 0i4emia deglandi, Bonap., Burlington, 
Iowa. November 15, 1890. Paul Bartsch. 
Piping plover, jEgialitis meloda, (Ord) Burlington, Iowa. 
August 21, 1892. Paul Bartsch. This specimen was killed 
nearer the Illinois than the Iowa side of the river, and is, 
therefore, not strictly an Iowa record. 
Clarke’s crow, Picicorvus columbianus, Boone, Iowa. Sep- 
tember, 1894. Carl Fritz Henning. This is the most surpris- 
ing record reported this year. Mr. Henning kindly sent the 
specimen for identification, and donated it to the university 
museum. 
Bewick’s wren, Thryotliorus bewickii, (Aud,) Burlington, Iowa, 
April 10, 1893. Paul Bartsch. 
The above species of birds have not before been authentically 
recorded from this state, and all but one were in the collection 
of Mr. Paul Bartsch, of Burlington, and have been deposited in 
the Museum of Natural History of the State University of Iowa. 
No notes have been sent in regarding the reptiles and batra- 
chia, except a complaint over the scarcity of frogs for labora- 
tory use. This scarcity is due probably, to the unusually dry 
weather during the past summer. 
Mr. H. F. Wickham has kindly furnished the following list of 
coleoptera new to Iowa. 
