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from north of Grand Junction, and breeding only in the hottest desert 

 valleys. Tolerably common and one taken among the cedars in dry 

 gulches along the McElmo Canon, Montezuma County, in June, 1907, and 

 again in July among oak thickets in Sinbad Valley and along Dolores River, 

 in southwestern Mesa County. One also seen May 21, 1907, at Walsen- 

 burg, east of the mountains. 



Myadestes townsendi. Townsend Solitaire. — A nest containing four 

 partially incubated eggs, found July 27, 1906, at 6200 feet in the foothills 

 a few miles southwest of Arkins, Larimer County, was nearly 2000 feet 

 lower than the normal breeding range of the Solitaire in Colorado. The 

 writer has, however, found this species breeding at considerably below 

 5000 feet in the Pine Ridge region of northwest Nebraska. 1 



Solitaires were abundant in the cedar country of northwest Baca County, 

 November 26 to 29, 1907, where they doubtless winter. 



Sialia mexicana bairdi. Chestnut-backed Bluebird. — One seen in 

 July, 1907, near Uncompahgre Butte, on the Uncompahgre Plateau, at 

 9000 feet, is the first record of bairdi in Mesa County. 



Sialia currucoides. Mountain Bluebird. — Common at Springfield and 

 Gaume's Ranch, Baca County, November 25 to 29, 1907, where reported 

 wintering. 



A Recent Instance of the Occurrence of the White Pelican (Pelecanus 

 erythrorhynchos) in Massachusetts. — I have an adult male White Pelican, 

 in full nuptial plumage with well-developed 'centre-board,' which Dr. 

 Lombard C. Jones of Maiden, Massachusetts, was kind enough to secure 

 for me some four years ago, soon after it had been skinned and mounted by 

 Robert Bazin, a Maiden taxidermist. It was taken at Sandwich, Massa- 

 chusetts, possibly on the 12th, but almost certainly on the 13th, of May, 

 1905, by George W. Kuntz (or Kounze) of Sandwich. He gave it to Eugene 

 Haines (also of Sandwich and familiarly known to Dr. Jones) who sent it 

 in the flesh to Dr. Jones by whom it was received on May 17 and immediately 

 placed in the hands of the taxidermist already mentioned. I bought it a 

 week or two later from Mr. Haines, through Dr. Jones, and it was deposited 

 in my collection on May 31, while the skin was still 'green' and enshrouded 

 in its winding of cotton thread. Mr. Haines reported that Mr. Kuntz (or 

 Kounze) had found the bird lying dead among some beach grass whence 

 he traced its large footprints backward across the beach to the water's 

 edge ; here it must either have alighted or — as is perhaps more probable — 



i See Proc. Nebr. Ornith. Union, II, 1901, 79; also ibid., Ill, 1902, 73. 



