The Masked Duck in Vermont. — Since the publication of m y ‘ Review 
of Prof. Perkins’s Vermont Birds,’ Mr. Samuel Ilenshaw has called my 
attention to the fact that the specimen of Nomonyx dominions (No. 482) in 
the collection of the Boston Society of Natural History has its right wing 
clipped, and was thus probably not a wild straggler in Vermont, but an 
escaped tame bird. This evidence is, I think, enough to expunge this 
record, which has held a place in North American faunal literature since 
1858. — Reginald Heber Howe. Jr., Longwood , Mass. 
Auk, XIX, April., 1902, p* 
