30 BULLETIN OF THE NUT TALL 



The following year (1874) the project of publishing a 

 Bulletin was agitated, but it was finally thought that the 

 time for such an undertaking had not yet arrived. The 

 American Sportsman was then adopted as a temporary me- 

 dium of publication, and during the following year quite a 

 number of the more important communications read before 

 the Club were published in its columns. * At the same time 



* As a matter of permanent record of the work of the Club prior to the in- 

 ception of the Bulletin, the following list of the principal articles read before 

 the Club, and published in the American Sportsman and elsewhere, is here 

 appended. 



1. A New Species of North American Warbler (Helminthophaga leucobron- 

 ehialis). By Win. Brewster. Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 33, Oct. 17, 1874. 

 [The first description of the species. See also Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. I. 

 No. 1, pp. 1, 2, and Plate I.] 



2. A New Species of Finch (Amvwdromus melanoleucus) from Florida. By 

 C. J. Maynard. Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 24S, Jan. 16, 1875. [Collected in 

 the marshes of Salt Lake, Florida, by Mr. C. J. Maynard. This is the form of 

 Ammodromus previously (Bull. Essex Inst., V, p. 198, Dec, 1873) described by 

 Mr. K. Ridgway as A. maritimus var. nigrescens.] 



3. A New Bird (Sterna regia) to Massachusetts. By William Brewster. 

 Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 249, Jan. 16, 1875. [The record of the capture of 

 two specimens, $ and 9> at Nantucket Island, July 1, 1874, by Messrs. C. J. 

 Maynard and Wm. Brewster. The female bore marks of having just laid. 

 Both specimens were in somewhat peculiar plumage.] 



4. Some Notes on a New Species of North American Tern. By Wm. Brew- 

 ster. Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 249, Jan. 16, 1875. [Notice of a specimen 

 of Sterna portlandica, Ridgway, collected on Muskeget Island, Mass., July 1, 

 1870.] 



5. The Loggerhead Shrike in Massachusetts. By C. J. Maynard. Amer. 

 Sports., Vol. V, p. 313, Feb. 13, 1875. [Record of the capture of a specimen 

 of Collurio ludovicianus at Newtonville, Mass.] 



6. Occurrence of the Fork-tailed Gull (Xevia sablnci) in Massachusetts. By 

 Wm. Brewster. Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 370. [Record of a specimen (the 

 first taken in New England and the third taken in the United States) captured 

 in Boston Harbor, Sept. 27, 1874.] 



7. The Nidificatiou of the Blue Crow (Gymnokitta cyanocephala) and of the 

 Gray-headed Snowbird (Juneo canicejjs). By Charles E. Aiken (Cor. Memb.). 

 Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 370, March 13, 1875. [First description of the 

 nests and eggs of these two species.] 



8. Occurrence of the Mocking- Bird in Massachusetts. By E. C. Greenwood. 

 Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 370, March 13, 1875. [Record of the capture of spe- 

 cimens of Mimus polyglotius in Newtonville, with a notice, by Mr. Ruthven 

 Deane, of others taken elsewhere in Eastern Massachusetts.] 



9. Habits of the Mourning Warbler. By Wm. Brewster. Rod and Gun 



