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ture recorded on tte label is October 10, 1876*. Although he hunted 

 carefully over equally desirable situations in other parts of the State, thia 

 was the only place where it was found. This forms its most eastern rec- 

 ord, excepting the single specimen taken by Mv. E. W. Nelson at River- 

 dale, 111.* — H. B. Bailey. 



Audubon's "Warbler in Massachusetts. — While collecting in the 

 neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass., November 15, 1876, I was fortunate 

 enough to obtain a fine specimen of Audubon's Warbler (Dendrocca auclu- 

 honi). It was a male, and the yellow of the • throat was very plainly 

 marked. Dr. Cones, in his " Birds of the Northwest," gives Laramie Peak 

 as about the eastern limit of this species. Its occurrence here •mnst, of 

 course, be regarded as entirely accidental. — A. M. Frazar. 



Occurrence of the Sooty Tern in Massachusetts. — In Mr. Al- 

 len's " Catalogue of the Birds of I\Iassachusetts " we find the Sooty Tern 

 (Sterna fuliginosa) given, on the authority of Mr. E. A. Samuels, as a 

 rare summer visitor to Muskegat Island. But for some reason Dr. Brewer, 

 in his recent " Catalogue of the Birds of New England," withdraws this 

 species from the New England list, and challenges its.right to be regarded 

 as in any sense a New England bird. I have the pleasure of replacing 

 this species by recording the capture of a fine adult male on the Merrimack 

 Eiver near Lawrence, Mass., on October 29, 1876. I e.xamined the speci- 

 men at the store of Mr. Charles I. Goodale, taxidermist, who has finely 

 preserved it, and it is now in the possession of Mr. A. W. Howland of 

 Lawrence. — Ruthven Deane. 



The Black Gyr-Falcox (Falco sacer var. labradora) in Massachu- 

 setts. — A fine specimen of this Falcon was shot on Breed's Island during 

 the latter part of October, 1876. It proved to be a male, in nearly adult 

 plumage, and is now in the collection of Mr. C. I. Goodale, through whose 

 kindness I have had the pleasure of examining it. — C. B. Cory. 



Notes on Birds new to the Fauna of Maine, etc. — Of the follow- 

 ing five species, three are here for the first time recorded as birds of Maine, 

 another as found for the first time so far in the interior, and another as 

 found for the first time breeding on the New England coast. 



1. Ammodromus caudaciitus Sicain. Sharp-tailed Finch. — I 

 have found this species, now, I believe, for the first time recorded as a 

 bird of Maine, a rare inhabitant of a certain part of the great marsh in 

 Scarborough. 



2. Passerculus princeps Maynard. Ipswich Sparrow. — On the 

 9th of October, 1876, 1 met with one of these birds on a sandy point on the 

 northwest shore of Lake Umbagog, in New Hampshire. I should hesitate 



* See Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Vol. 1, p. 40. 



