Aside from Holt's statement, Oberholser had only five other records for _falcinellus_ in Louisiana, one being a market specimen with incomplete data and therefore of questionable scientific value. The remaining four specimens were taken by E. R. Pike near the mouth of the Mississippi River on November 13 and 17, 1930, and are now on deposit in the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Recently I borrowed these specimens for reëxamination with the following results. The three taken on November 17, 1930, are _mexicana_ and not _falcinellus_ as labeled and so reported by Oberholser. The single specimen taken on November 13 is, however, correctly identified as _falcinellus_. Alexander Wetmore kindly examined the material for me and confirmed my identifications. The occurrence of _falcinellus_ in Louisiana thus hinged on Holt's statement and one preserved specimen. However, on July 23, 1944, in the marshes on Grand Isle, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, I encountered a flock of 12 immature ibises that impressed me by their blackness in contrast to the color of glossy ibises with which I was familiar in Cameron Parish. Two specimens were collected and both proved to be _falcinellus_. Holt's published observations cannot be positively refuted, for we cannot be sure that a colony of _falcinellus_ did not exist in Cameron Parish in 1932, nor that the portion of the rookery under his observation did not consist of a segregated population of that species. However, ten years of field observations by other ornithologists have failed to disclose the species which Holt considered a common nesting bird in an area where we now know that only the White-faced Glossy Ibis occurs. The fact that Holt specifically stated that he failed to find the white-faced bird at any time in his stay in Cameron Parish is difficult to explain, but this much is certain--the present known status of _falcinellus_ in Louisiana is that of only a rare and casual visitor. #Branta canadensis hutchinsii# (Richardson), Hutchins Goose Oberholser (_op. cit._, 89) cited only one Louisiana record for this goose. The bird in question was shot but apparently not preserved. Consequently, the status of the race on the Louisiana list was subject to question. Recently, however, two typical specimens of _hutchinsii_ were obtained in the state, one by Edouard Morgan, near Lake Catherine, on November 7, 1942, and the other by Herman Deutsch, four miles above the mouth of the Mermentau River, on November 2, 1944. The former is displayed in the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Exhibit in the Louisiana State Museum, and the latter is now in the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoölogy. #Oxyura dominica# (Linnaeus), Masked Duck