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19. Junco hyemalis. Snowbird. — Not rare on the Hoosac Plateau. 



20. Vireo flavifrons. Yellow-tiir(}.\tei) Vireo. — Three or tour in 

 Stockbridge. 



21. Dendroica coronata. Myrtle W.\ruler. — One in Becket, two in 



Stockbridge, in white pine woods. 



22. Dendroica maculosa. Magxom v Warhler. — Not rare among 

 spruces from Becket northward. 



23. Dendroica blackbumiae. Bi.ackiukman WARni.ER. — A few in 

 Stockbridge; not rare in spruce woods from Becket northward. 



24. Dendroica virgorsii. Pine Warbler. — Mr. Faxon shot a female 

 in North Adams in the breeding season. 



25. Troglodytes hiemalis. Winter Wren. — One heard in Great 

 Harrington, fourteen miles north of the Connecticut line; heard also in 

 Becket and Washington. 



26. Cistothorus stellaris. Short-billed Marsh Wren. — Locally 

 common in Stockbridge. 



27. Regulus satrapa. Golden-crowned Kinglet. — Found in spruce 

 woods in Becket, Washington, and northward. — Francis 11. -Allen, 



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Some Notes on Cape Breton Summer Birds.— Through the kindness «y 



of Mrs. BoUes I have before me a list of the birds observed in Cape 

 Breton by the late Frank Bolles during the first two weeks of August, 

 1893. This enables me to make at least two additions to the list of 

 summer birds of the Bras d'Or region as published in 'The Auk' (Vol. IV, 

 p. 13, and Vol. VIII, p. 164) bj Dr. Dwight and myself. These two 

 species are Lox/ti curvirostra ininor. which Mr. Bolles "met with in small 

 numbers all through the region between Baddeck and Ingonish," and 

 Dendroica ctFrulesccns, one individual of which he found near Baddeck. 

 As to the ten following species Mr. Bolles left no record of the precise 

 locality where he observed them, and they may or may not have been in 

 the Bras d'Or region : — 



Larus argentatus smithsonianus. (In June 1890 I found numbers of 

 these on the southwestern coast of the Island.) 

 Anas obscura. 



Clangula hyemalis. (Doubtless migrants.) 

 Totanus solitarius. 



Antrostomus vociferus. Mr. Bolles did not meet with this bird him- 

 self, but when he whistled the song, "the dwellers by sea or inland lake 

 said, ' Oh yes. we have that bird. He sings at night.'" 



Trochilus colubris. This is another bird which Mr. Bolles did not 

 observe personally, but from the reports of the inhabitants he was 

 positive of its occurrence. 



Sayornis phoebe. " Pewees and small Flycatchers few and far 

 between. " 



