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To Mr. Garman, therefore, belongs the credit of its discovery within 
the State of Illinois. 
2. Buteo harlani. Harlan’s Buzzard. — Mr. Clias. K. Worthen, 
of Warsaw, Illinois, informs me that in March, 1879, he collected a fine 
adult male of this species, near that place. “ Two of them were seen at 
the time, flying up the Mississippi River, apparently following the flight 
of Water-fowl which were then coming north in great numbers.” 
3. Platalea ajaja. Roseate Spoonbill. — Although this species, 
like the Parrakeet and Ivory-billed Woodpecker, may not now occur 
within the limits of the State, I have the word of a reliable collector, Mr. 
A. Wolle, of Baltimore, Md., that some twenty years since it was notun- 
common in certain localities in the Mississippi bottoms, in Illinois, below 
Saint Louis, where Mr. W. obtained a number of specimens. It may 
still occur in secluded localities in the extreme southern part of the State. 
4. Pelecanus fuscus. Brown Pelican. — The occurrence of this 
maritime species so far inland is certainly very remarkable ; but there 
seems no doubt of its having wandered, at least on one occasion, so far 
from the Gulf coast. Mr. Worthen writes me that he “ saw a specimen of 
this bird flying over Lima Lake, a large shallow body of water ten miles 
below here [Warsaw, Illinois], in October, 1873. The bird was not over 
a hundred yards from myself and two or three others, and we watched 
it for several minutes, none of us having ever seen anything like it alive , 
before or since. It was flying toward the Mississippi River at the time, 
and though we all looked for it afterward it could not be found. Now I 
know that P. fuscus is considered a strictly maritime bird ; but if it was not 
P. fuscus, what could it have been ? It had the color, bill, and size of that 
species I am satisfied in my own mind, and give the facts for what 
they are worth.” 
5. Graculus mexicanus. Mexican Cormorant. — Mr. Worthen 
reports that last spring he “received a skin of this species labelled 1 Near 
Cairo, Illinois.’ It was in summer (not adult) plumage.” He was not 
able to trace the specimen, so that there is room for doubt as to the local- 
ity. Still, there can hardly be a question of its occurrence in Southern 
Illinois, considering the known range of the species, and the locality given 
on the label is very probably .correct. 
6. Stercorarius buffoni. Long-tailed Jaeger. — For the follow- 
ing concerning the occurrence of this species in Illinois, I am indebted to 
Prof. W. H. Ballou, of . Evanston, who communicated the facts to me as 
long ago as March, 1878 : “It may be of son\e value to you to know that I 
picked up dead on the Mississippi shore, near Cairo, Illinois, a specimen of 
Buffon’s or the Long-tailed Jaeger. The specimen was obtained in No- 
vember, 1876. It might have been killed, or died, at the head-waters of 
the Mississippi or Missouri River, and floated down, for all I know. It 
was too much decayed to preserve, and seemed to have been dead a num- 
ber of days. After an examination by myself and a friend, we were com- 
pelled to throw it away.” 
