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in Massachusetts seems to be somewhat doubtful, it may be worth while to 

 record the fact that I saw one at Wauwinet on the island of Nantucket, 

 August 6 and 7, 1918. The species formerly bred on Muskeget Island 

 at the opposite end of Nantucket, where the killing of a family of six in 

 order to protect the Tern colony from their depredations led to a discussion 

 as to the probability that they belonged to an undescribed insular race 

 (see Auk, 1897, 388; 1898, 75-77, 210-213). Mr. George H. Mackay 

 writes me that he has been well satisfied that in the past the species " bred 

 quite regularly (say one or two pairs) in the vicinity of Siasconset on 

 Nantucket and more rarely on Muskeget Island." Siasconset is a little 

 south of Wauwinet, on the eastern shore of the island. — Francis H. 

 Allen, West Roxbury, Mass. 



On Brotogeris ferrugineifrons Lawrence. — In ' The Ibis ' for 1880 

 (page 238) Mr. George N. Lawrence described a new Parakeet from 

 Bogota, Colombia, under the name of Brotogerys ferrugineifrons. This is 

 evidently a very rare bird in collections. In fact, so far as I know, the 

 type, which is now in the American Museum of Natural History (No. 

 44744), is the only known specimen. 



This species is well marked and can be confused with no other. It does 

 not, however, belong to the genus Brotogeris, but to Bolborhynchus. This 

 is shown by the form of the bill and by the presence of the oil-gland which 

 bears a large tuft. In Brotogeris the oil-gland is wholly absent. 



Bolborhynchus ferrugineifrons is most nearly allied to B. andicola, with 

 which it agrees in its uniform green plumage, the tail two-thirds as long as 

 the wing, and the tenth primary shorter than the ninth. It differs from 

 that species, as well as from B. lineola, in its decidedly greater size, darker 

 green coloration, and in the rusty forehead and face. 



The skin is not of native Bogota make, and the name " Wallace " on 

 Lawrence's label indicates that the specimen was obtained from the New 

 York taxidermist, John Wallace. The measurements, in millimeters, of 

 the type specimen are as follows: Wings, 116 and 118; tail, 77.5; culmen, 

 14; tarsus, 15. The tail is graduated for 24 mm. — W. DeW. Miller, 

 American Museum of Natural History, Neiv York City. 



Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides ardicus) at Belmont, 

 Mass. — I am able to furnish one more record of this species rare in east- 

 ern Massachusetts. On October 17, 1918, in a ramble over the Belmont 

 Hill pasture and wooded lands, I came upon an adult male bird working 

 assiduously for grubs upon a dead pitch pine tree. The yellow crown was 

 a conspicuous feature. He allowed as near an approach as fifty feet and 

 permitted me an exhaustive survey of him. After a time he dropped to a 

 prostrate trunk of pitch pine close by and was then but thirty-five feet 

 from the rock on which I had seated myself, thus indicating an absence of 

 shvness. 



