110 BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL CLUB. 



he had ju?t found a beautiful nest of Spermoiihila moreleti, which proves 

 to be a rather abundant species. — J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 



A Cuckoo's Egg in a Cedar-Bird's Nest. — On July 19, 1874, while 

 collecting in a piece of swampy second growth about four miles from 

 Utica, N. Y., I discovered a nest in a small sapling about eight feet from 

 the ground, Avhich, on examination, I found to contain four eggs of the 

 Cedar- Bird (Ampelis cedrorum), and one egg of the Cuckoo. From the 

 damp situation, from the appearance of the egg itself, and from the fact 

 of my having found the nest of that bird in the same piece of wood the 

 previous year (1873), I am led to believe it was that of the BLack- billed 

 species {Coccyzus erythrophthalmus). The nest was deserted and apparently 

 had been for some time, as all the eggs were addled, nor could I see that 

 incubation had begun ; certainly it had not in the Cuckoo's egg. I can 

 find no mention in print, nor have I ever before heard, of such a case. — 

 Egbert Bagg, Jr., Utica, N. Y. 



[The laying of our American Cuckoos in the nests of other birds is 

 doubtless not so rare an occurrence as has been supposed. Two instances 

 have been observed recently in this immediate vicinity, and I have heard 

 of others. Mr. A. M. Frazar, of Watertown, Mass., informs me of one in- 

 stance where the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) deposited 

 an egg in a Robin's nest, and another case of the laying of the same 

 species in the nest of a Wood Thrush. In the March number of the 

 " Odlogist" (Vol. Ill, p. 3, published at Utica, N. Y.) an anonymous writer 

 records (since Mr. Bagg's note was received for publication) the ilnding of 

 two eggs of the " Cuckoo " (species not given) in the nest of a " Redbird " 

 at Gambler, Ohio. — J. A. Allen.] 



Occurrence for the first Time in England op the Robin (Tnrdiis 

 migratorius). — Mr. J. E. Harting records the first occurrence in England 

 of this species in an article in " The Field " (published in London, Eng.), 

 of December 23, 1876, and also in the "Zoologist" for January, of which 

 paper he is editor. The bird was taken alive, owing to its exhausted 

 state, when reaching land at Dover, during April or May. 



Mr. Harting is a well-known authority on stragglers, having published 

 in 1872 a Handbook of British Birds, in which was recorded 212 speci- 

 mens of American birds, belonging to 42 different species. Since that 

 time some of these have been discredited, and others added, until at the 

 present time the list embraces 220 instances of the occasional appearance 

 in Great Britain of North American birds. Of the species referred to in 

 this list, there are five birds of prey, fourteen Pasgeres and Picarice, one 

 Cohnnba, fourteen Grallatores, and eight Natatores. The prevailing winds 

 of the Atlantic being westerly probably accounts for the greater abun- 

 dance of American stragglers in Europe than the contrary. — H. B, Bailey, 

 Orange, N. J. 



