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takes place about five miles from the mouth of the St. John. The marsh 

 is some twenty miles, air line, from the nearest point on the Bay of Fundy 

 shore, and at the time we visited it, the water running past it did not taste 

 in the least brackish.* 



8. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Towhee. — A specimen, now in the 

 collection of the Natural History Society of St. John, was shot at Irish- 

 town on May 8, 1881, by Mr. J. Belyea. 



9. Zamelodia ludoviciana. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. — I have ex- 

 amined the skin of one of this species taken near Hampton in June, 1879. 



10. Passerina cyanea. Indigo Bunting. — There is a skin in the 

 collection of James McGivern, Esq., said to have been taken about six miles 

 north of St. John in June, 18S0. I can learn of no other occurrence of this 

 bird near here, though I have frequently seen specimens taken on the 

 western, or Bay of Fundy shore of Nova Scotia. 



11. Zenaidura carolinensis. Mourning Dove. — This bird has been 

 but rarely met with here ; one taken at Hampton in June, 1880, one at 

 Rothesay on September 30, 1881, and one at Milkish on October 17, 

 1881, are the only specimens I have heard of. 



12. Ardetta exilis. Least Bittern. — Between the spring of 1877 

 and the fall of 1880 there were five individuals of this species taken on 

 the Bay of Fundy shore, about ten miles to the eastward of St. John. 



13. Micropalama himantopus. — Stilt Sandpiper. — The only known 

 occurrence of this bird in this vicinity is of three seen by Mr. F. W. Daniel 

 on the sand flats back of St. John on September 8, 1881. He secured one 

 of them, which is now in the museum of the Natural History Society. 



14. Reciirvirostra americana. Avocet. — Mr. William Ellis of St. 

 Martins, a village on the shore of the Bay of Fundy, says he has shot 

 one or more of these birds each year for the last five years, usually meet- 

 ing two together. A specimen taken by him in 1880 is in the museum of 

 the Natural History Society. 



15. Himantopus mexicanus . Black-necked Stilt. — I procured one 

 of this species in September, 18S0, from Mr. John Ellis of Mace's Bay, an 

 arm of the Bay of Fundy, lying some thirty miles to the westward of St. 

 John, and was told by Mr. Ellis that several had been taken there during 

 former years. 



16. lonornis martinica. Purple Gallinule. — Since obtaining the 

 male, announced by Mr. Wm. Brewster in this Bulletin for July, 18S1, I 

 have had the good fortune to get possession of a female which was shot 

 near Gagetown, a village on the St. John River, about forty miles from its 

 mouth. The bird was taken in the early part of September, 1S80. 



17. Chen hyperboreus. Snow Goose. — One of these birds was taken 

 at Gagetown in December, 1880, and sent by me to Mr. E. O. Damon of 

 Northampton, Mass. 



18. Anas boscas. Mallard. — A pair in the museum of the Natural 

 History Society were shot near Hampton by the late Col. Otty some fifteen 

 years ago. The only late occurrences of this species are of one mounted 



* [See p. 122 of this issue. — Edd.] 



