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igoi J (je7ieyal Notes. • 407 



Accipiter atricapillus striatulus. Western Goshawk. — One speci- 

 men taken in the Stehekin valley. 



Falco richardsonii. Richardson's Merlin. — First noted on the 

 Chelan River ; was afterwards twice seen in the mountains. 



Stellula calliope. Calliope Hummingbird. — A fewwere made out 

 with indifferent success. Thej are not to be counted as nearly so com- 

 mon as the Rufous. 



Loxia leucoptera. White-winged Crossbill. — A flock of a dozen 

 was seen at an altitude of 7000 feet on Wright's Peak. 



Stelgidopteryx serripennis. Rough-winged Swallow. — Several in- 

 dividuals were distinguished from the abundant Bank Swallows at the 

 foot of Lake Chelan. This bird can hardly be rare, and its omission 

 before was doubtless due to oversight. 



Certhia familiaris occidentalis. California Creeper. — Not uncom- 

 mon in the high mountains. No specimens were taken but there is little 

 doubt that the birds are an overflow from the Pacific slope ; since they 

 were continuously present from the high regions east of the divide as we 

 moved west over the range and down into the lowland forests of the 

 Puget Sound country. 



Parus rufescens. Chestnut-backed Chickadee. — The appearance 

 of this bird is also to be counted an overflow of a typical coast form. A 

 single troop was seen and a specimen obtained in the valley of the 

 Stehekin. 



Besides these eight new records two species are to be transferred from 

 the ' hypothetical list ' of 1897. 



Larus Philadelphia. Bonaparte's Gull. — Seen on the Columbia 

 near Wenatchce. 



Helminthophila rubricapilla gutturalis. Calaveras Warbler. — Re- 

 peatedly seen. A set of three fresh eggs was taken from a brushy draw 

 well up in the mountains, on July 22. — Rev. W. Leon Dawson, Co- 

 lutnbus, O. 



Manuscript of Emmons's Catalogue of Massachusetts Birds. — Through 

 the generosity of Miss M. R. Audubon, I have recently come into the pos- 

 session of the original manuscript of Dr. Ebenezer Emmons's Catalogue 

 of the Birds of Massachusetts. This will be of more particular interest 

 to the ornithologists of New England, as it was the first atternpt at a 

 scientific list of Massachusetts Birds. 



In Dr. J. A. Allen's ' List of the Birds of Massachusetts, with Annota- 

 tions ' ' he says : " The first and formal list of the birds of the state was 

 prepared by Dr. Ebenezer Emmons, and published in 1833 in Prof. Hitch- 

 cock's ' Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology of Massa- 

 chusetts ' (pp. 545-551). This contained one hundred and sixty species, 

 all but two of which were valid. Excluding the two synonyms, all but 



' Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Vol. X, p. 3, 1878. 



