1S90.] Mearns, Birds of the Hudson Highlands. ff 



p yg m Y Nuthatches, than by ornithologists; and I am indebted to these 

 little birds for most of my specimens. I took a female at Whipple Bar- 

 racks, March 21, 1884; an old male was taken from an oak-tree on Pine 

 Creek, in Tonto Basin, March 29, 1886; another captured at Banghart's 

 Station, in Chino Valley, while surrounded by belligerent Plain Titmice, 

 in a cottonwood hedge, on November 5, 1884; and one was killed at 

 Baker's Butte, on the Mogollon Mountains, July 26, 18S7. Its pleasant 

 note was heard in the pine-trees overhead nearly every night while I was 

 exploring the San Francisco group of mountains. 



( To be continued.) 



ADDENDUM TO 'A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE 

 HUDSON HIGHLANDS, WITH ANNOTATIONS.'* 



BY DR. EDGAR A. MEARNS. 



[204. i.] Phalacrocorax dilophus (Sw. and Rich.). Double-crested 

 Cormorant. — An adult specimen taken at Cornwall, on the Hudson, 

 October 10, 1S83; others seen on the upper Hudson November 4, 1889. 

 Measurements (No. 2627, Cornwall-on-Hudson, October 10, 1883, E. A. 

 M.) : length, 33.60; alar expanse, 53.65 ; wing, 12.90; tail, 7.80; culmen, 

 2.30; gape, 3.60; tarsus, 2.40; middle toe and claw, 3.20; middle claw, 

 .47; outer toe and claw, 3.90; outer claw, .38; inner toe and claw, 2.33; 

 inner claw, .47; hallux with its claw, 1.57; claw of hallux, .50 inch. Irides 

 green. Feet and claws jet black. Gular pouch orange. 



[52.1.] Piranga rubra (Linn.). Summer Tanager. — I took a female 

 in perfect plumage, at Highland Falls, New York, May 12, 1SS3. Meas- 

 urements (No. 2583, E. A. M.) : length, 7.00; alar expanse, 11.40; wing, 

 3.60; tail, 2.80; culmen, .60; gape, .77; tarsus, 74; middle toe and claw, 

 .75; claw alone, .22 inch. Irides hazel. Bill greenish olive. Legs and 

 feet bluish gray; claws brownish. 



[52.2.] Piranga ludoviciana (Wils.). Louisiana Tanager.— On 

 December 21, 18S1, while standing on a high point beside the Hudson, at 

 Fort Montgomery, New York, I noticed a bird flying strongly from the 

 north. It alighted in a tree top near me. and appeared animated and shy ; 

 thinking it was about to fly away, I shot it at once, and it proved to be a 

 young male Louisiana Tanager, in good plumage, and fairly well nour- 

 ished!."' Measurements (No. 2244, E. A. M.) : length, 7.45; alar expanse, 



*Published in Bulletin of Essex Institute, Vols. X to XIII, 1878 to 1881. 

 fFor its only previous capture east of the Mississippi River, see 'Forest and Stream ' 

 Vol. X, p. 95. 



