D.ec. 15, 1882.] 



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iluiieriea devoted to geueral ornithology f 

 Tufted Titmouse. — Had tlie good for- 

 tune to capture a tine specimen of tlic 

 Tufted Tituiouse. on the Gtli inst. Wliat 

 I know of this rare bird is as follows : 



1871. April 30. — Saw two : was without 

 my gun, it being on Sunday : was within 

 about thirty feet of them. 1881, April 12. 

 — Shot one ; no others seen. 1882, April 

 (J. — Shot one : no others seen. — //. A. 

 Atkins, 31. T)., Locke, Mich. 



C0CKOOS. — -One very singular find of 

 mine this season was a nest containing 

 a set each of Black-billed and Yellow- 

 biUed Cuckoos. It was in a young oak 

 sapling in a crotch about nine feet up. 

 There were two eggs of each variety, very 

 distinct in size and color — no one seeing 

 them would question the distinction. In- 

 cubation had commenced but was about 

 equallj' advanced, showing they were laid 

 at about the same time. The old Yellow- 

 bill had " nine points of law" in her favor 

 — " possession." It was late in the season 

 for that species to be breeding, the 24th 

 of July. Mentioning this circumstance to 

 J. N. Stannis, he remarked that he was 

 glad I found it, for he once found one 

 similarly situated but had never been able 

 to convince anybody of the fact. It was 

 not in such situations as I have usually 

 found the Yellow-bills, but the bird was 

 very tame and demonstrative and I 

 could not be mistaken in the species. 



Gkeat White Egret ( Hcrodhi.^ ollni 

 e<frttta. — One of my neighbors~pi'0'''ii'<'d 

 specimen August 11th, nearly two miles 

 from the seashore. It was following up a 

 mill stream and he shot it from his door 

 as it flew past. It was pure white, in 

 young plumage, a long-legged, long- 

 necked, stilty looking bird. The same 

 person shot one of these birds in 1878, 

 the 2d of August. These are the only 

 birds of the species that I ever saw. — J. 

 N. Clark, Old f^iyhrook, (Jt. 



Red-shouldered H.^wk. — I captui'ed a 

 beautiful specimen of a Red shouldered 



Hawk, a male, in mature plumage, a few 

 days ago. It seemed to have adopted the 

 range of the creek passing near by for its 

 Wint(!r lumting ground as early as Octo- 

 ber, and he included our immediate vicin- 

 ity in his daily excursions. Perhaps I 

 was irnjust by him, but I imputed the 

 cause of my dimniishing poultry to him, 

 but with no positive proof. However that 

 might be, I had an earnest desire for his 

 skin, and kept my gun specially prepared 

 for him, and have returned from many a 

 fruitless effort' only to wish I could get a 

 little nearer. There was a solitary tree on 

 the bank where he rested almost every 

 day as he took his excursion up the creek, 

 and a thought struck me. if I only had a 

 rabbit — well, I got one, and the day after 

 Thanksgiving I tied it to a spring and set 

 a steel trap on a large branch imder it — 

 but I saw the hawk rest no more on that 

 tree. He seemed to entertain suspicions 

 that something was wrong till the 17th of 

 January, looking that way, I had the satis- 

 faction of seeing my coveted bird stand- 

 ing there with a foot securely fastened in 

 the trap. The Winter has been pretty se- 

 vere on the birds and they have almost 

 entirely deserted us, but I had the satis- 

 faction of seciu-ing one thing new to my 

 collection a few days ago— a Purple Sand- 

 piper captured on the jetty off the mouth 

 of the river.— .7. iV. Clark, Old Saybrook, 

 Conn. 



Olive-sided Flycatcher. 



A bird by no means coninum in this lo- 

 cility, arriving from the 10th to "iOth of 

 i\Iay. Having observed a pair of them fre- 

 quenting a large and isolated orchard, I 

 was confident of finding their nest; but 

 careful and repeated search failed to reveal 

 it. Leaving the orchard June Ifith, 1882, 

 and entering a piece of young growth 

 among which were a few large hemlock 

 trees, I suddenly noticed one of them 

 (probably the male) flying toward me. It 

 was verv much annoyed by my presence 



