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birds, who have, of their own voUtion, 

 or nalcns volcns, quitted the land of 

 their nativity and winged their way to 

 distant cHmes. To tabulate for the 

 readers of the Museum, the results of 

 of my investigation /;/ toto would be 

 too great a task. It is our purpose to 

 present in the present paper a list of 

 the American species of birds recorded 

 as having occurerd within the limits of 

 the British Isles. It is not claimed 

 that the list, which has been compiled 

 entirely from books in our own library, 

 is complete, but we think omissions 

 are few. The British Ornithologist's 

 Union, which is to Great Britian what 

 our A. O. U. is to the United States, 

 has seen proper to reject many birds 

 from their list, that have been actually 

 taken in their territory, on the ground 

 that the birds taken had escaped from 

 avaries. However the list here given 

 contains all the species of which we 

 have been able to find record, those 

 preceded by an asterisk being the for- 

 tunate ones to secure recognition and 

 permanant enrollment on the Check 

 List of that august body of scientist, 

 the B. O. U. In justice to the Rev. 

 Gregory Smith, author of "Birds on 

 the British List", London, 1886, I 

 must add that I have taken the liberty 

 to incorporate many extracts from his 

 very excellent work. The list we have 

 succeeded in compiling, is as follows: 



Red Shouldered Hawk. There is a 

 record of its occurence in Scotland. 



Red Tailed Hawk. A record in 

 Nottinghamshire. 



American Rough-legged Hawk. Re- 

 ported from Devonshire. 



*American Goshawk. Three records. 



American Sparrowhawk. Two York- 

 shire Records. 



*American Hawk Owl. 



American Screech Owl. Yorkshire 

 and Norfolk. 



American Robin. Dover. 



Red-eyed Vireo. Two records. 



Great Northern Shrike. Record in 

 Scotland. 



Red-Winged Blackbird. 12 records. 



Rusty Grackle. Cardiff. One re- 

 cord. 



Meadow Lark. Three instances. 



*White-winged Crossbill. 



Purple Martin. One record in Ire- 

 land. 



White-bellied Swallow. One record. 



Hairy Woodpecker. Several records. 



Downy Woodpecker. One record. 



*Black-bi;led Cuckoo. One record. 



*Passenger Pigeon. Several occur- 

 ences. 



Rock Ptarmigan. One record. 



*Pacifir, Golden Plover. Norfolk. 



American Golden Plover. Norfolk- 



*Killdeer. Two occurences. 



Spotted Sandpiper. Four occur- 

 ences. 



Solitary Sandpiper. 2 records. 



Yellow-legs, (flavips). One record. 



Wilson's Snipe. One record. 



*Bridled Tern. One record. 



"Noddy. 



Bonaparte's Gull. 7 occurences. 



Horned Grebe. Two records. 



*Black-capped Petrel. One record- 

 Flamingo. Four records. 



Canada Goose. 



*Blue-winged Teal. 



*Green Winged Teal. 2 or 3 in- 

 stances. 



Hooded Merganser. 



An Archaelogical Find- 

 Recently some boys engaged in dig- 

 ging a hole to bury a lamb on the 

 Brandt farm at Hoffman, N. Y. brought 

 to light some very interesting relics of 

 the ancient occupants of the valley. 

 The find consists of four large double 

 pointed flint knives and a stone tube, 

 most curiouly wrought. The blades 

 are chipped from a blue flint and are 

 from 4^ to 5^ inches long, and are 

 very thin and broad for the length. 

 Archaeologists would term them knives 

 but their use as such was very doubt- 

 ful. The stone tube was^unforunately 

 broken by the finders, but judging 

 from the remaining perfect portion it 

 must have had a length of eight or ten 

 inches. Measurments of the portion 





