. Uccelli del Michigan . .). Trombettista Swan. Raro; migrante; Hillsdale Co. (A. H. Boies); uno preso in Kent Co. Da E. S. Holmes e ora nella sua collezione a Grand Rapids; incluso nelle liste degli uccelli del Michigan da Covert, Fox, Stockwell e Steere; contee dell'Indiana del Nord (ButtersBirds dell'Indiana). REPARTO ZOOLOGICO. 41 Ordina HERODIONES. Aironi; cicogne; Ibise; ecc. sottoordine IBIDES. Spatole e focali. Famiglia IB1DIDM. Stambecchi. Bollette lunghe; fazzoletti a zampe piuttosto corte; cibo, pesce e altri animali acquatici. Genere PLEGADIS Kaup. 77-186-(649). PLE^adis autnnmalis (Hasselq.). Ibis lucido. Ver
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. Birds of Michigan . .). Trumpeter Swan. Rare; migrant; Hillsdale Co. (A. H. Boies); one taken in Kent Co. by E. S. Holmes and now in his collection at Grand Rapids; included in the lists of Michigan birds by Covert, Fox, Stockwell and Steere; counties of Northern Indiana (ButlersBirds of Indiana). ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 41 Order HERODIONES. Herons; Storks; Ibises; etc. Suborder IBIDES. Spoon-bills and Ibises. Family IB1DIDM. Ibises. Long bills; rather short legged waders; food, fish and other aquatic animals. Genus PLEGADIS Kaup. 77-186-(649). Ple^adis autnnmalis (Hasselq.). Glossy Ibis. Very rare; occasional straggler; one Michigan specimen reported in the catalogueof the Kent Scientific Institute by E. L. Moseley; killed Oct. 6, 1884, on Saginaw Bay (N. A. Eddy O. and O., Vol. X, p. 9). Suborder HERODII. Herons; Egrets; Bitterns; etc. Family ARDEIDJE. Herons; Bitterns; etc. Feed on fish, frogs and toads, etc.; about marshes; not usually game birds. Subfamily BOTAURINiE. Bitterns.Genus BOTAUHCS Heermann.. Bittern, reduced.78-190-(6»>6). Botaurns Ientiginosus [Montag.). *Amerioan Bittern; Stake Driver; Shytepoke; Indian Hen; Thunder Pumper; Barrel Maker; Plum Pudden.Common; throughout the state; April to August; common in Monroe Co.(Jerome Trombley); Mackinac Island (S. E. White); common at Sault Ste. Marie(A. H. Boies); Keweenaw Point (Kneeland); reported from Kent Co. and Ann Arbor;breeds; nests, but not in colonies, on the ground, usually in marshes and often sur-rounded by water; breeds in great numbers about marshes in Shiawassee county (Dr. W. C. Brownell), occasionally in meadows; nest elaborate; eggs three to seven, drab or mud color; the males make as a love note a sound like plum pudden, alsoanother like a ringing or pumping sound, as- if pounding a barrel (see article byBradford Torrey in The Auk for January 1889); a very common bird in nearly allparts of Michigan; destroys field mice. For interesting articles on this bird by Dr.fi 42 AGRICULTURAL COL
