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unique Euspiza toimsencU, Regxdus cuvieri, etc., or, like Dendrceca Icirtlandi, 

 will turn up occasionally in the future at different points, or still again, 

 as in the case of Centronyx bairdii, will be found in large numbers, time 

 alone can decide." It is with pleasure, therefore, that I can announce the 

 capture of a second specimen of this species, so new to Ornithology, and 

 particularly also because it was taken in a locality so far distant from 

 where the first one was obtained. The specimen under consideration was 

 shot by Mr. Christopher D. Wood, on the afternoon of May 12, 1877, in 

 an apple orchard near Clifton, Delaware County, Pa. It proved to be a 

 male, and answered to the desci'iption given by Mr. Brewster. It is, with- 

 out doubt, a veritable specimen of H. leucohroncJiialis, and goes to prove 

 the species a good one. It was first called to my attention by Mr. Wood 

 himself, who told me that he had shot a specimen of H. leucohronchialis 

 near Clifton. He afterwards showed me the bird, which he had been com- 

 paring with the plate of the former specimen, and found it to be identical. 

 Whence these rarities come, whether they are abundant in certain sections, 

 and the characters of the females, are matters not yet known ; yet it is more 

 than likely that at no very distant day both the present species, as well as 

 Helminthophaga laivrencei, may prove to be nearly if not quite as abun- 

 dant as the other species of the same genus. — Spencer Trotter, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



The Mottled Owl as a Fisherman. — On November 29, 1876, I 

 took from a Mottled Owl's hole (Scops asio) the binder half of a Woodcock 

 (Philohela minor). Within two weeks after I took two Owls from the same 

 hole, and on the 19th of January last I had the good fortune to take an- 

 other. After extracting the Owl I put in my hand to see what else there 

 was of interest, and found sixteen Horned Pouts (Amiurus atrarius), four 

 of which were alive. When it occurred to me that all the ponds in the 

 vicinity were under at least two feet of snow and ice, I could scarcely conjec- 

 ture where the Horned Pouts could have been captured. After visiting all 

 the ponds, I found they had most probably been cajstured in one fully a mile 

 away, where some boys had been cutting holes through the ice to catch 

 pickerel bait. The Owl probably stationed himself by the edge of the 

 hole and seized the fish as they came to the surface. What a busy time he 

 must have had flying thirty-two miles after sixteen Horned Pouts ! I may 

 also state in this connection that I once found the ground under a Great 

 Horned Owl's nest (Bubo virginianus) literally strewn with fish-bones. — 

 A. M. Frazar, IVatertoivn, Mass. 



Breeding of Leach's Petrel on the Coast of Maine. — In the Jan- 

 uary number of the Bulletin (Vol. II, 1877) Mr. N. C. Brown refers to 

 the Leach's Petrel (Thalassidroma leucorrho:a, Linn.) "as found for the first 

 time breeding on the New England coast," and mentions meeting with its 



