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APPENDIX TO THOMPSON'S VERMONT. 



FOSSIL WHALE. 



BIRDS OF VERMONT. 



some vegetable remains, and also specimens 

 of JVitCi/Za and Saxicava. At the surface 

 of the blue clay were great numbers of 

 Mytilus erhdis and Sanguinolaria fusca, 

 and the latter were scattered through the 



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stratified sand and clay above. The local- 

 ity, as ascertained by the railroad survey, 

 is GO feet above the mean level of Lake 

 Champlain, and 150 above the ocean.* 



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BIRDS OF VERMONT. 

 Additional to Part I, Chapter iii. 



To our list of Birds given in Part I, page ] 

 53, we now add the following species : j 



Tyrannus cooperi, Olive sided KinK Bird. 



Muscicapa traiUii, Traill's Flycatcher. 



" rutici/la, American Redstart. 



" pusi/la, Green Blackcap Warbler. 



Vireo gilvus, Warblinp Yireo. 



Merula olivacea, Olivebacked Thrush. 



Sylvia striata, Black-poll Warbler. 



" riificapilla, Ked-poll Warliler. 



" pardo/ina, Canada Wari)lcr. 



" pants. Hemlock Warbler. 



" Philadelphia, Mourning Warbler. 



" amcricana, Particolored Warbler. 



Frimrilla horealis. Mealy Redpoll. 

 Coccoborus ludu7>icianus, 'Rosehrested Grosbeak. 



Tanagra rubra. Scarlet Tanager. 



Picus pileatus, Crested Woodpecker. 



Ardea minor, American Bittern. 

 Tatanv.i melanolrucas,Gres.tor Yellow Shanks. 



Trinira semipaimata, Semipalmated Sandpiper. 

 Colymhus septentrionalis. Red Throated Loon. 



We also make additions to our former 

 account, of the following : 



Falco chrysaetas. Golden Eagle. 



Cypselus pelasgius. Chimney S\vallow. 

 Columba migratoria. Passenger Pigeon. 



THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 



Falco chrysaetas. — Linn. 

 In May, 1845, two eagles of this species 

 were observed flying near the summit of a 

 high hill, in Pittsfield, in this State. One 



of these was shot and wounded. It flew 

 about half a mile and pitched down into a 

 thick forest, but could not then be found. 

 About a week afterwards, it was discovered 

 and captured. It was confined in a stable, 

 fed on meat, and kept there more than a 

 year. It was then sent to Middlebury, to 

 Prof C. B. Adams, who, on the '23d of Oct., 

 1846, sent it to me, at Burlington. I kept 

 it in an open cage, or coop, in the corner 

 of my yard, through the winter, and watch- 

 ed its conduct with much care. It was a 

 female, and was, in her disposition, very 

 savage; and during the 7 or 8 months 1 

 kept her alive, I made very little progress 

 towards taming her. She -would strike 



* In 1847, a portion of the skeleton of a whale, was 

 found in the same kind of clay, as that in which the 

 bones were found in Charlotte, in the vicinity of 

 Montreal. It was found about 15 feet below the 

 surface, in digging clay for making bricks, and was 

 about 100 feet above the level of the St. La^Trenc^. 

 The portion found, consisted of 19 consecutive verte- 

 brse, which measured, all together, when aiTanged in 

 their order, 4 1-2 feet. About one-third of the ver- 

 tebrre were caudal, tlie other two-thirds sacral and 

 lumbar. These fossil bones were carried to London, 

 by Mr. Logan, Provincial Geologist, where I had an 

 opportunity of comparing with them some of the 

 vertebra of B. vermontana, at the Museum of the 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain, and I have little 

 I doul)t that they are identical in species. 



