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sible aid in its support, and feeling also that the Club had 

 given some token of its earnestness, the leading ornithologists 

 of the United States were invited to co-operate with the Club 

 as either resident or corresponding members. Upon their 

 election the resident members of the Club were gratified to 

 receive from the gentlemen so elected not only letters accept- 

 ing membership, but containing expressions of the warmest 

 interest in the objects and prosperity of the Club, together 

 with offers of hearty assistance in the maintenance of the 

 Bulletin as a permanent journal of Ornithology. 



With the present number the Bulletin becomes somewhat 

 changed in its character, and greatly improved in typographical 

 appearance. It is hereafter intended not only to present in 

 each number original communications, but to give short notices 

 of recent ornithological publications, especially such as relate 

 to American Ornithology, and also a variety of notes and 

 general miscellany. With the promises of literary support 

 already received (see Prospectus), the Club publishes its second 

 number of the Bulletin, feeling that its establishment as a 

 journal creditable to American ornithologists is assured. 



REGARDING BUTEO VULGARIS IN NORTH AMERICA. 



BY ROBERT RIDGWAY. 



After having been repeatedly given as a North American species, 

 in consequence of the erroneous identification of some one or other 

 of its strictly American congeners, this common European bird has 

 at last a claim to be included in our fauna. Such at least is the 

 case according to the incontrovertible evidence presented in Mr. 

 Maynard's article in the last number of this Bulletin (Vol. I. No. 1, 

 pp. 2-6). The specimen upon which these remarks are based is a 

 veritable B. vulgaris, as we are fully satisfied from a personal in- 

 spection ; but, instead of concurring in the statement that " three 

 specimens of the Common Buzzard have actually been taken within 

 our limits," we believe, on the contrary, that only the one in ques- 

 tion has been procured this side of the Atlantic, so far as the 



