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tains, by Lieutenant H. C. Benson, U. S. A. This capture renders it ex- 

 tremely probable that the Trogon referred to by Mr. W. E. D. Scott in 

 'The Auk' for October, 1886, p. 425, as observed in the Chiracahua Moun- 

 tains, was this species, which is the only one of the Red-bellied Mexican 

 species whose range extends beyond the southern half of that country. 

 Lieutenant Benson's specimen, which is now in the National Museum 

 collection, will be described in full in the 'Proceedings' of the National 

 Museum for 1SS7. — Robert Ridgway, Washington, D. C. 



Capture of a Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) at Wareham, Massachu- 

 setts. — Inasmuch as my record (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, I, 1S76, p. 19) of a 

 Fish Crow seen at Cambridge, March 16, 1S75, has been treated with 

 wholesome caution — not to say incredulity — by several recent writers on 

 New England birds, it gives me pleasure to present a second and quite un- 

 impeachable instance of the occurrence of the species in Massachusetts. 

 This time the bird was actually taken ; — at Wareham, July 16, 18S4, by Mr. 

 E. A. Bangs, in whose collection the specimen is now preserved, and to 

 whom I am indebted for the following account of its capture : 



"I was fishing with my brother in Tihonet Pond and, as usual on such 

 occasions, had my gun with me. While crossing the pond we saw two 

 birds sitting on a tree near the mouth of a brook. From their actions I 

 thought at first that they were Pigeons, but on getting nearer made out 

 that they were black and resembled small Crows. We approached them 

 with all possible caution, but they flew before we got within sixty vards. 

 I brought down one, when the other. circled over it for a moment, but it 

 escaped before I could reload the gun (a single barrel). The one I killed 

 proved to be a female in full plumage." — William Brewster, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Occurrence of Agelaius phceniceus (L.) on the West Coast of England. 

 — Additions to the useful 'List of Occurrences of North American Birds in 

 Europe,' contributed by Mr. Dalgleish to the 'Bulletin' of the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club in 1S80, will, doubtless, always be welcome in the 

 pages of 'The Auk.' It affords me much pleasure to add to that list the 

 capture of an immigrant specimen of Agelaius p/ia>niccns (L.) — a species 

 which has been recorded as occurring in Britain on at least a dozen occa- 

 sions on evidence of a more or less* satisfactory nature, some of the speci- 

 mens being supposed escapes from confinement. The bird now to be 

 recorded struck against the lantern of the Nash Lighthouse, on the Welsh 

 Coast of the Bristol Channel, at 3 a.m. on the 27th of October last, and 

 was intended to be forwarded to me by its captor, Mr. Henry Nicholas, 

 one of the most valued observers of the British Association's Bird Mi- 

 gration Committee, but during his absence for a few moments was 

 unfortunately carried off by the cat. Mr. Nicholas had no difficulty in 

 identifying the bird by the aid of his books, but I at once sent him a 

 skin of the bird (an adult) in order to test his determination of the species, 

 and he replied ''that the bird killed very much resembled the one sent ex- 



