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Nutt. Orn. Club, I, 1876, 73), Riverdale, N. Y. (Bicknell, ibid., 

 IV, 1879, 60), and at Moorestown, N. J. (Turnbull, Bds. Eastern 

 Penn., 1869, 41), and is as likely to occur in Massachusetts as 

 many other species which have been taken there. 



12. Empidonax acadicus. ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. Has 

 been taken at Suffield, Conn. (Merriam, Rev. Bds. Conn., 1877, 

 58), within about six miles of the Massachusetts line. Recorded 

 by me in 1864 as occurring at Springfield, but in this instance 

 E.pusillus traillii was mistaken for it, as heretofore stated (Proc. 

 Essex Inst., X, 1878, 33). 



13. Perisoreus canadensis. CANADA JAY. Has been taken 

 at Portland, Me. (Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VII, 1882, 122), 

 and at Brandon, Vt. (Knowlton, ibid., VII, 1882, 64). Mr. Jen- 

 ness Richardson informs me that there is a small resident colony 

 of these birds near Rutland, Vt., about fifty miles north of the 

 Massachusetts line, where he has often shot the birds. It doubt- 

 less occurs as an occasional winter visitor in Berkshire County. 

 Mr. C. J. Maynard reports seeing " an individual in Newtonville " 

 " in early summer," about 1875 (Bds. East. N. Amer., 1879, 168), 

 but it eluded capture, and there is, so far as known to me, no 

 record of its actual capture in the State. Mr. George N. Lawrence, 

 however, reports the capture of a specimen u on New York Island, 

 near Manhattanville," in midsummer (Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., 

 VIII, 1866, 289), a very unusual season for this bird to be seen 

 so far south. 



14. Corvus ossifragus. FISH CROW. This species is now 

 well known to be a not very rare resident on Long and Staten 

 Islands, and in the lower Hudson Valley (Zerega t Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, V, 1880, 205; Mearns, Bull. Essex Inst., XII, 1880, no- 

 112; Pur die, ibid., V, 1880, 240; Dutcher, Trans. Linn. Soc. New 

 York, I, 1882, 109-111). There is also an old Connecticut record 

 (Linsley, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, XLIV, 1843, 260). Mr. Wil- 

 liam Brewster observed a single individual in Cambridge, March 

 16, 1875 (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, I, 1876, 73), but there is thus far 

 no record of the actual capture of the species within the State. 



15. Stelgidopteryx serripennis. ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW. 

 This species has been found breeding at West Point, N. Y. 



