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ADDENDUM 



NEW YORK BIRD HISTORY SINCE 1910 



A few notable events have occurred since 1910 in New York ornithol- 

 ogy which should be added to the histories recorded in volume I of this 

 memoir. Eesides the numerous notes published in the Auk, Bird Lore and 

 other magazines which add somewhat to the knowledge of our birds, three 

 separate publications which require special note have appeared. 



The most significant of these in its additions to our ornithology is 

 " The Vertebrates of the Cayuga Lake Basin, New York," by Hugh D. 

 Reed and Albert H. Wright, Proceedings of the American Philosophical 

 Society, vol. 48, p. 370-459, 1909. This paper represents the work of 

 years by members of the department of vertebrate zoology in Cornell 

 University and their assistants, and takes front rank among all faunal lists 

 which have appeared in the State. The maps, discussion of life zones and 

 records of migration and nesting dates have added materially to our 

 knowledge. Although this publication arrived too late to be noted in the 

 introduction to volume I, most of the records were furnished us to include 

 in the Tompkins county list. 



A new " Annotated List of the Birds of Oneida County, New York," 

 was published by Egbert Bagg in the transactions of the Oneida Historical 

 Society, vol. 12, p. 16-85, 191 2. This edition brings the Oneida county 

 list up to date, including all the additions made by Mr Bagg since the 

 original list by himself and Dr Ralph was issued twenty-five years ago. 

 No new additions to the Oneida county list not noted in volume I of this 

 work occur, however, except the probable record of the Blue grosbeak. 



Mr Ottomar Reinecke of Buffalo has printed his " Personal Observa- 

 tions and Notes on the Breeding, Migrating or Visiting Birds on the 

 Niagara Frontier." This pamphlet of thirty-four pages (1912, no date on 

 the impression received) gives many interesting experiences of Mr Reinecke 

 while making his extensive oological collections in western New York. 



Of the records of rare birds taken in the State since 19 10, probably 

 the most noteworthy is the capture of the Cory least bittern, Ixobry- 

 chus neoxenus, in the marsh at the head of Cayuga lake, May 27, 

 1913, by Mr Arthur A. Allen of Ithaca, N. Y., which gives us the first 

 definite record of this rare bird for New York State. Mr Allen also took 

 at the head of Cayuga lake on September 16, 1909 (Cornell University 

 Collection 5,219) an American avocet, Recurvirostra americana, 

 which is the only definite record of this species for our State during the 

 last half century. Dr Carlos Cummings of Buffalo has reported another 

 specimen of the White-faced glossy ibis, Plegadis guarauna, taken 



