[From 'THE AUK,' Vol. VII, No. i, January, 1890.] 



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, 1883 ; others seen bn 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, 1883. 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, 1881, 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- 

 ishedf. Measurements (No. 2244, E. A. M.) : length, 7. 45; alar expanse, 

 11.35; wing, 3.62; tail, 3.00; culmen, .65; bill from nostril, .48; gape, 

 .75; tarsus, .82; middle toe and claw, .80; middle toe without claw, .58; 

 middle claw, .25 inch. Iris hazel. Bill with maxilla dusk}' brown, yellow- 

 ish on edges, mandible yellow. Tarsi and toes bluish lead color. This 

 bird was in the plumage of the female, but careful dissection proved that 

 it was a young male. 



[17.1.] Cistothorus stellaris (Licht.). SHORT-BILLED MARSH WREN. 

 A summer resident; not rare at Cornwall, on the Hudson, where its 

 nests and eggs were taken by Mr. Eltinge Roe, in June. 1882, as recorded 

 in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Vol. VIII, p. 179. 



79. Ammodramus caudacutus nelsoni Allen. NELSON'S SPARROW. 

 The Sharp-tailed Sparrows recorded by me from the Hudson Highland 

 have recently been referred by Mr. Jonathan D wight, Jr., to this form, 

 although he considers them to be intermediate between subspecies nelsoni 

 and subvirgatus, approaching a little more closely to nelsoni. 



*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. 



