26 BULLETIN OF TEE NUTTALL 



A HoMMING-BlRD NEW TO TiTK FaUNA OF THE UhITED StATES. — I 



have again tire pleasure of adding another bird new to our Fauna. A 

 Humming-Bird (male), taken within the limits of Fort Brown, Texas, 

 August 17, 1876, and forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution for iden- 

 tification, has just been determined to be Amazilia cervineiventris. It much 

 resembles Pyrrhophwna riefferi, and has rustT (instead of white) leg puffs. 

 — James C. Mereill, Fort Brown, Texas, December 4, 1876. 



Note on Podicep3 dominicus.* — This species was long since attrib- 

 uted (perhaps erroneously) to " California," by Dr. William Gamhel ; it 

 was included by Baii-d among Birds of the Mexican Boundary, apparently 

 on strength of its eggs found at Matamoras, and figured in his " Birds of 

 North America" (ed. of 1860, not of 1858). It was also formally pre- 

 sented by nie as North American (Birds of the Northwest, p. 736, where 

 its habitat is given as north of the Rio Grande). — Eli^iott Codes. 



Eastward RANas of the Ferrcginous Bdzzard (Archibuteo ferru- 

 ginem). — During the past summer (1876J I found this bird to be common 

 on the prairies of Nebraska and Wyoming, where it might almost be con- 

 sidered as one of the characteristic species. In 1873 I observed it on the 

 Pembina Mountains, in Eastern Dakota, near the Red River of the North ; 

 and in 1874 I found it nesting in Northern Montana, on one of the Two 

 Forks of Milk River. In years previous I had only seen it in Arizon;'. 

 and Southern California. I can now record its range still fartlier east- 

 wanl, — beyond the Mississippi, as I lately saw one in Illinois, a few miles 

 from the river. The great size of the bird, its white tail, almost a?, con- 

 epicuoua as that of the Bald Eagle, and white under parts, render it un- 

 mistakable at any ordinary distance. Its geographical distribution 13 

 apparently nearly coincident with that of the Lanier Falcon {Falco polya- 

 grus Cass.), a bird which I have also found very numerous in Nebraska, 

 Wyoming, and open portions of Colorado. Both species a,re prairie Hawks, 

 subsisting largely or chiefly upon the small rodent mammals which abound 

 in sr.ch regions. — FrxiOTT CouEs, Washington, D. C, October, 1876. 



OcccttttENCE OF Leconte's Bunting {Cotumiculus lecontei Jjon?) in 

 Iowa. — One of my correspondents, Mr. E. W. Newton, of Franklin 

 Grove, 111., writes me that when on a recent collecting trip through Iowa, 

 he had tlie good fortune to secure twenty-two specimens of this species in 

 a small slough situated in Colo, Story County, near the centre of the 

 State, one of v.hich he kindly sent me for identification. The date of cap- 



• Sec this Bulletin. Vol. 1, p. 88, November, 1876. 



