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in the same locality. Possibly this Eagle was mate to the fine female 

 whose capture was noted by Prof. A. E. Verrill of New Haven in the 

 January 'Auk' (XIV, p. 891). — C L. Rawson, Nortvic/t, Conn. 



Northern Hawks in Massachusetts. — The American Goshawk {Accipi- 

 ter atricdpillits) has been abundant in this section the past fall and winter. 

 1 myself have secured three specimens, one of which I caught in a steel 

 trap. All that I have secured or seen, except one, were in adult plumage. 



On Feb. .25, 1897, 1 drove within ten yards of a Rough-legged Hawk 

 {Archilitilco sancti-johannis), in the light phase of plumage, perched by the 

 roadside on the edge of a grove of white pines. — Herbert K. Job, 

 North Mi(1dlcboro\ Mass. 



Swainson's Hawk in Michigan. — I wish to record the capture of a 

 Swainson's Hawk {Bitteo sxvainsoni) taken by myself in Cheboygan 

 County, Mich., in October, 1883. I can find but three other records for the 

 State. — Nt)RMAN A. Woon, Ann Arl>or, Mich. 



Note on Elanus glaucus. — Hcnjamiii Smith Barton's 'Fragments of 

 the Natural Historj' of I'ennsylvania,' published in 1799, is a folio of pp. 

 xviii + 24, so rare as to be little-known or almost forgotten. Many 

 ornithologists might never have heard of it, had it not been for Ilirundo 

 horreoriim, which Haird adopted in 1858 for the Barn Swallow. But in 

 187S I gave a careful analysis of this tract (B. Coll. Vail., pp. 592-594), 

 which made all its ornithological points accessible; and had due attention 

 been paid to this matter, we should not now have to change certain names 

 which have obtained undeserved currency through the deservedly high 

 authority of the A. O. U. Check-List. Some objections which have been 

 urged against Bartram's names do not extend to those of Barton, who was 

 a strict binomialist, and whose identifiably described species must conse- 

 quently be recognized if they happen to fall under our rule of priority. 

 One of these is " Falco glaucus of Bartram," whose name and suflicient 

 description are repeated by Barton, with due binomiality on p. 11 of his 

 work. "Now," as I observed (A c, p. 593), "those who decline to have 

 anything to do with Bartram, on the ground of his untenable nomen- 

 clature, will necessarily observe that Elanus glaucus (Barton, 1799) must 

 replace E. leucurus" as Vieillot's Milvns leucurus dates iSiS. Our 

 Committee can hardly plead ignorance of the fact that E. glaucus has 

 also stood as the name of the White-tailed Kite in my ' Key ' since 1884 ; 

 tor tliat would argue an incredible unfamiliarity on their part with current 

 ornithological literature. The mistake may be regarded as an oversight 

 which we can hasten to correct in the next Supplement to the Check-List. 



Reference to the Bibliography above mentioned will reveal a number of 

 other Bartonian names which need attention. For example, Certhia 

 fa miliar is fusca (Barton, 1799) ; for Barton's C.fusca, fully described, ante- 

 dates Bonaparte's C. americana of 1838, as the name of the American 



