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and although I did not secure the bird, I had a good opportunity to observe 

 it for sometime, making careful note of the size and coloring of the bird 

 and the characteristic marking of the white upper tail-coverts and white 

 tail feathers, broadly tipped with black. 



I flushed the bird four or five times and as it made low flights from me, 

 it spread its tail, which looked short, and the large white spot, on the 

 upper tail-coverts and tail, with broad blackish band at the end of the tail, 

 was particularly conspicuous. 



The bird was alone and on some large loose rocks, at the top of the broad 

 expanse of rock, which gradually extends to the ocean, and when flushed 

 could have easily flown to the nearby shrubbery and trees, but in each case 

 flew to another part of the loose rocks. At one time, when I thought the 

 bird had gone, I was surprised to have it dart down from above in an almost 

 perpendicular flight and light on one of the rocks in front of me. 



For about a week previous to Sept. 17, there had been a very strong 

 north wind. 



The subspecies was necessarily undetermined but undoubtedly was the 

 Greenland Wheat ear (Saxicola osnanthe leucorhoa). 



The above note is offered as of interest, if not conclusive proof of the 

 occurrence of the bird in Massachusetts. — Chas. R. Lamb. Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Stray Notes from New Brunswick. — Uria lomvia lomvia. An adult 

 male in my collection was picked up in the snow at Barton Station on the 

 Keswick River, eighteen miles above Fredericton, on Nov. 26, 1902. The 

 stomach was empty and no doubt the bird, being lost had starved to death. 



Cryptoglaux acadica acadica. Fairly common in York County 

 frequenting the dense spruce and cedar forests. At Scotch Lake on April 

 8, 1902, I found a nest in a deserted woodpecker's excavation in a spruce 

 stub. The nest entrance was about fifteen feet from the ground and ten 

 inches from top of stub. The entire lower half of the hole was filled with 

 feathers and rabbit fur on which the six pure white eggs were layed. 



Phloeotomus pileatus abieticola. Fairly common in the spruce 

 forests near Fredericton where they nest. Observed several times along 

 the Tobique during winter of 1903-4. 



Passerherbulus nelsoni subvirgatus. Common on the islands in 

 the St. John River above Fredericton especially on Sugar Island where 

 they nest in considerable numbers. An adult male secured on Keswick 

 Island, Aug. 20, is in my collection. 



Bombycilla garrula. I well remember the one and only time I ever 

 saw this species in the east. It was a cold raw day, March 10, 1902, that 

 I found a flock of five feeding on the frozen berries of mountain ash in a 

 front yard on Charlotte St., Fredericton. They were very tame and I 

 watched them as they fed, at a distance of not more than twenty feet. 



Dendroica tigrina. Common during migration in the spruce forests 

 around Scotch Lake where they can usually be found in early May feeding 



