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Caprimulgus europaeus [Antro- 



stomus vociferus], 

 NIGHT HAWK, Caprimulgus americanus [Chor- 



deiles virginianus ] . 



Additions to the zoological catalogue by MR. PECK. 



PIGEON HAWK, Falco subbuteo [ ? ] 



FISH HAWK, Falco haliaetus [Pandion haliaetus 



carolinensis ] . 



HORNED Owi,, Strix bubo [Bubo virginianus]. 



OI,D WIFE, Anas hyemalis [Harelda hyema- 



lis]. 



MURR, Alca torda [Una lorn via]. 



PETTERiiv, Procellaria pelagica [Oceanodroma 



leucorhoa?]. 



LARGE SPOTTED LOON, Colymbus glacialis [Gavia imber]. 



DOBCHICK or No TAIL, Colymbus podiceps [ Podilymbus 



podiceps]. 



For nearly seventy years after Belknap's list, we find practi- 

 cally nothing on New Hampshire ornithology, save a few scat- 

 tered notes of little importance. After this long season of qui- 

 escence, however, comes a period of considerable activity among 

 our ornithologists. In 1869 and 1870, Mrs. Celia Thaxter con- 

 tributed a series of articles to the Atlantic Monthly, entitled 

 " Among the Isles of Shoals," and these contain much of inter- 

 est in regard to the bird life of that locality. In 1870, also, as 

 part of the appendix to William L/ittle's " History of Warren," 

 is found a mainly nominal list of 143 birds, which, however, 

 appears not.to have been the result of original observation, and 

 is of no special importance. In 1872, appeared the first really 

 scientific paper of note upon the birds of New Hampshire, that 

 of Mr. C. J. Maynard on the Birds of Coos County, N. H., and 

 Oxford County, Me. This list, with its all too brief annota- 

 tions by the author, supplemented by a few notes from Mr. 

 William Brewster, still remains the only list of birds of the 

 northern part of the State. In Volume I of Hitchcock's Geol- 

 ogy of New Hampshire, published in 1874, is found a list of 

 birds then regarded as more or less characteristic of the faunal 

 divisions of the State, but it is not clear whether these are to be 

 considered as birds actually observed in New Hampshire. An 



