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ORNITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. 7-No. 17 



ORNITHOLOGIST 



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OOLOGIST. 



A MONTIILT MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO 

 THE STUDY OF BIRDS, THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. 



JOH. M. WADE, EDITOR, 



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EDITORIAL. 



" Birds of New Brunswick. 



Away clown eastiu the Province of N. B., 

 wi^li its head centre at Saint John, is prob- 

 ably the HveUest natiuMl history society on 

 this continent at the present time. There 

 are earnest workers in every department, 

 but ornitholoo^ is especially favored by an 

 able set of men who seem devoted to the 

 science in its familial' form. The leader of 

 this band, Montague Chamberlain, seems 

 cut ont by nature as a teacher. AVliile realiz- 

 ing the full value of science, he also knows 

 that bird life, pure and simjsle, as depicted 

 by Wilson and Audubon, is what wins over 

 to science the young and would be or 

 nithologists. The back pages of this mag- 

 azine bear evidence of the industry and 

 careful observation made by the members 

 of this society which has just issued its 

 first volume of transaction, entitled Bttlle- 

 tin of the Natxral Tlhtorij Society of JVeir 

 Urunswick. It is a valuable document of 

 72 pages devoted to the doings of the so- 

 ciety and natural history generally, but 

 what interests us most is the list of 2()9 

 birds (by M. Chamberlain) found in that 

 Province. This is not offered as a perfect 

 list, but as an " installment," and bears ev- 

 idence on its face that the day is not far 

 distant when the Birds of New Brunswick 

 will be thoroughly catalogued. "Whether 

 this BHlletln will be offered for sale or not 

 we do not know — but it should be in the 

 hands of every progressive ornithologist. 



Birds of Central New York. 



ADDENDUM TO REVISED LIST. 



" The Eevised List of the Birds of Cen- 

 tral New York," as it appeared from the 

 press in April, 1879, was a work based on 

 the field observations of H. G. Fowler, 

 Frank S. Wright and Samuel F. Rathbun, 

 of Auburn, N. Y., and collated for the jjrese 

 by Frank R. Rathbun. A continuation of 

 the work, since the publication of the list, 

 has resulted in adding fourteen species to 

 the record from this section, beside many 

 notes of interest. This makes the number 

 of perfectly authenticated species 250. 

 which have come under the actual obser- 

 vation of Messre. Fowler, Wright and S. 

 F. Rathbun, three of the authors of the 

 " Eevised List." 



The nomenclature as contained in the 

 "Bidletin of the IT. S. National Museum," 

 is observed in the addendum ; the style 

 and numbering as in the Revised List. 



237. Mocking Bird. — {Mimus polyqlot- 

 iux.) (Linn.) Boie. A specimen of this bird, 

 an adult male in full breeding i)lumage, 

 was taken during the month of May, 1881, 

 by John :M. Manro at Throopsville, N. Y., 

 a few miles from Aubum. This bird, now 

 in liis cabinet, was undoubtedly in its wild 

 state, as it showed no traces of confine- 

 ment. 



238. Orange-ckowned Warbler. — {Ilel- 

 minthophaga cehita.) (Say.) Baird. Rare. 

 But one individual on record, an adult 

 female, taken September 15th, 1880. by F. 

 S. Wright from a migratory flock of small 

 species, while collecting in a tamarack 

 swamp in Wolcott. Wayne Co., N. Y. 



230. Northern Waxwing. — {.Inipelis 

 i/iirriilii.<!.)(hm..) Arare winter visitant. Not 

 recorded from this section jirevious to the 

 winter of 1879-80. In December. 79, Mr. 

 J. Hunter, of this j)lace, observ-ed a flock 

 of sixteen of these* beautiful birds in a 

 mountain ash tree, about a half mile from 

 Sterling, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Of these he 

 shot twelve. Noticing the white marking 

 on their wings, and supposing this to be an 



