136 Fossil Bones from Oregon Territory. 
It may not be amiss for the reviewer to add to the above account, 
that the above triple nest was found in Roxbury, Mass. ; the cotton 
of which it was built had been easily obtained by the bird, the 
family near whose house it was found having freely distributed 
pieces of that article on adjacent trees and bushes, for the express 
purpose of being used for nests by the birds. In the third story 
of this nest a brood of four young yellowbirds had been went 
before the nest was taken. 
In speaking of the prairie warbler, Sylvia discolor, Mr. ple 
bon says: “I never saw it farther east than the ridges of the 
Broad Mountain, about twelve miles from Mauch Chunk.” It 
is not an uncommon bird in New York, Connecticut, and Mas- 
sachusetts ; we have known of its breeding in each of these 
= re are many, Very many interesting portions of this work, 
eons of the habits and peculiarities of the genera which it 
contains, we should delight in transferring to our pages did the 
nature of our Journal permit. Wherever they referred to impor- 
tant discoveries we have already briefly mentioned them, and 
our limits forbid us to do more ; more especially after having, in 
a previous number, already epekin so much zm extenso of the 
grperol subject. 
_ A third volume of this work is already half aieieietcil - Wheit 
it is concluded we intend to refer to the subject again, and to con- 
tinue our analysis of the new and important facts on ornithology 
furnished by the author. ‘Till then we must bid him once more 
adieu, with the full assurance that if his present work continues 
to improve as it has done, he will not fail to add even to his pres- 
oe we were mahernnptett to believe impossible. 
Arr. VE NOR of erat Bones from Oregon Territory, m 
a letter to Dr. C. T. Jackson ; by H. O, Perkins. 
My dear Sir—Having recently received, by the generosity 
of Capt. John H. Couch, of this place, several fine specimens of 
fossil remains, some of wihigh would seem to be somewhat rare, 
and pethaps unique, when viewed in relation to their locality at 
least, I her t hist y and description of the 
specimens, together with drawings of the most interesting, in the 
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