NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 19 



Juncn Oregonus, (Towns.), Scl. Female, shot in Watertown, 

 Mass., March 25th, 1874. This specimen is quite typical, and 

 its identity has been confirmed by my friend, Mr. H. W. Hen- 

 shaw, who has recently examined it. 



Corvus ossifragus, Wils. On the morning of March 16th, 1875, 

 I saw a bird of this species flying swiftly over our place in Cam- 

 bridge. It was pursued by at least twenty-five or thirty of our 

 common species, (Corvus Americanus), and at each renewnal of 

 their attacks gave utterance to its peculiar and unmistakable 

 notes. Having thoroughly familiarized myself with its voice 

 and motions in the South, where it is abundant, I feel confidant 

 that I could not in this instance have made any mistake. The 

 very fact of its having drawn the angry attention of so many 

 common crows, at a season too when their gregarious habits are 

 given up for more social relations, proves that it was to them 

 an object of novelty and one deemed worthy of suspicion and 

 hatred, I am not aware that an}' such feeling is maintained 

 when the two species come together in numbers ; but however 

 this may be matters little, as our oird habitnally treats all sus- 

 picious strangers in a like manner, and the collector is not sel- 

 dom indebted for a rare hawk or owl to the watchful eye and 

 clamorous alarum of thia sable sentinel. 



Vireo Philadelphicus , Cass. Qxi Sept. 7th, 1875, I shot a 

 female of this beautiful little species in Cambridge, Mass. It 

 was feeding in company with several individuals of Vireo olioa- 

 ceus, in a low willow tree. 



Tringa Bairdii, Coues. I secured a fine male of this spe- 

 cies at Upton* Oxford County, Maine, Sept. 1, 1875. When first 

 observed it was sitting alone on a mud flat at the foot of 

 Lake Urabagog. 



P/iilomachus pugnax Gr. Female. Killed at Upton, Ox- 

 ford County, Maine, September 8th, 1874. It was shot while 

 flying on the marshes at the mouth of Cambridge River. My at- 

 tention was attracted to it by its peculiar hawk-like flight, which, 

 provided it be a constant attendant of its motions, should at 

 once distinguish it while on wing from any other Tringce. I 

 am aware that this species has already been given in Mr. G. 

 A. Boardman's " List of the Birds of Calais, Me.," but Dr. 

 Brewer informs me that none of the specimens therein referred 

 to were taken within Maine limits. The only authentic N. E. 



