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course is rare in Connecticut." (Rev. J. H. Linsley, Cat. of the Birds of 

 Conn., in Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, Vol. XLIV, 1843, p. 249.) "Acciden- 

 tal. Have heard of one that was killed in Cambridge a few years since. 

 Mr. E. A. Samuels tells me that a pair bred in Cambridge in 1861." (J. A. 

 Allen, Proc. Ess. Inst., IV, p. 85, 1864.) Both these and the Connecticut 

 bird are cited by Dr. Coues (Proc. Ess. Inst., V, p. 285, 1868) as valid. 

 But I understand that more recently the authenticity of the specimens 

 taken is doubted, they being referred to the Crow Blackbird (Q.purjmreus). 

 As Mr. Linsley also gives Q. picrpiireus as common, I see no reason for 

 doubting his record. Of Mr. Samuels's birds, I have always understoo 

 him, and he still avers that two of them, in the flesh, were brought to hii 

 by Professor Jeffries Wyman, and that to his best knowledge and belit 

 they were shot in the Cambridge salt marshes ; that their rarity was com 

 mented on at the time, send that they were not Q. purpureas. 



Corvus ossifragus. Fish Crow. — *' Stratford," Conn., Linsley (1. c). 

 " An occasional visitor along the southern coast of the State of Massachu- 

 setts." (J. A. Allen,. 1. c.) "Very rare visitor in summer" to Massachu- 

 setts. (E. A. Samuels, Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of Mass., in 

 Ilept. of Sec. Board of Agriculture of Mass. for 1863.) " A rare summer 

 visitor, chiefly along the more southern portions of the coast" of New 

 England. (Coues, Proc. Ess. Inst., V, 1868.) "Coast of the United States, 

 from New England to Florida." (Coues, Birds of the Northwest.) And 

 now, as confirmatory of the above, Mr. Brewster gives an instance of his 

 seeing it in Cambridge, March 16, 1875. (See this Bulletin. Vol. I, p. 19.) 



.2Egialitis wilsonius. Wilson's Plover. — Allowing that this spe- 

 cies has not yet been found in Massachusetts, we have : " Stratford," Conn., 

 Linsley (1. c). "Appears to be rather rare, and perhaj)S only occasional, 

 as far north as Massachusetts. (Coues, 1. c.) " Dr. Wood informs me that 

 Wilson's Plover is abundant in August on Long Island, and Mr. Linsley 

 has recorded it from Stratford, Conn. It hence seems unquestionable 

 that they sometimes occur in Southern New England, and it would not 

 be strange if they should occasionally reach the coast of Massachusetts." 

 (Allen, Am. Nat., Vol. Ill, 1869.) "North to Long Island and Con- 

 necticut, probably' to Massachusetts, but rare beyond Nevv Jersey." (Coues, 

 Birds of the Northwest.) 



Nettion crecca. European Teal. — At a meeting of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, April 18, 1855, Dr. Bryant remarked that a 

 specimen of the European Green-winged Teal had been sent to Mr. E. 

 Samuels to be mounted. • It was shot in Massachusetts, the first he had 

 ever seen in the State. (Proc. Bos. Soc. Nat. His., Vol. V, p. 195.) This 

 instance is cited by Allen (Proc. Ess. Inst., Vol. IV, 1864) and by C. J- 

 Maynard (Naturalist's Guide, 1870), "A European species, but so often 



