162 Bagg, Birds of Oneida County, IV. T. Aoril 



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absence of green or yellow from any part of the plumage separate 

 it at once from P. tnacronyx, P. virescens and P. complexus ; the 

 entire absence of black from the upper parts from P. maculatus 

 and P. submaculatus, while it differs from all in having the 

 entire top and sides of the head grayish brown, like the back, 

 instead of black, like the chest. The general color of the upper 

 parts is very much that of the darker examples of P. fuscus, 

 but the color has, in certain lights, a very preceptible olivaceous 

 cast." 



BIRDS OF ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



BY EGBERT BAGG. 



Since the publication of the article by Dr. Ralph and myself 

 in 'The Auk' for July, 1S90, I have been able to add the follow- 

 ing to our local list. These eight new records, together with 

 Vireo solitarius filumbeiis, recorded from the adjoining county 

 of Madison, by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., in the last number of this 

 journal, make the total number of species and subspecies recorded 

 from ''Oneida County, N. Y.. and its immediate vicinity" two 

 hundred and thirty- nine. 



Rissa tridactyla. — A young male of this species was killed at Constantia, 

 Oswego Co. (on Oneida Lake), Nov. 9, 1890, by Robert J. Hughes. 



Rynchops nigra. — I have lately examined a specimen of this bird in a 

 taxidermist's shop in Utica, which was brought in in the fall of 1893 

 (October ?) and reported to have been killed near Whitesboro. Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway say of this species: "It is never known to be 

 driven astray by any storm, however violent." 



/Estrelata hasitata. — A male of this rare straggler was shot at Verona 

 Beach, on Oneida Lake, August 28, 1893, by the Rev. G. A. Biederman. 

 who presented it to Alex. H. Moore, a young ornithologist of Utica, who 

 mounted and preserved it. Mr. B. reports that there were two birds 

 together, but careful search shortly afterward failed to find the other, and 

 it may have been some other species. Through the courtesy of Mr. 

 Moore, who brought the bird to me for identification while in the flesh, 



