168 



remarks: 15 they "are not rare at Saybrook, Conn., but breed there 

 regularly in more or less numbers, and probably occur all along the 

 Sound shore west of the mouth of the Connecticut River." Mr. 

 Erwin I. Shores shot a male of this species, at Suffield, Conn., near 

 the Massachusetts border, but in the Connecticut Valley, July 8, 1875, 

 as recorded by Mr. Purdie, in the Nuttall Bulletin, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 

 21, January, 1877. 



Dimensions. Average measurements of thirty-nine specimens: 

 length, 5-67; stretch, 8-25; wing, 2-58; tail, 2-30; bill from nostril, 

 31; gape, -58; tarsus, -77; middle toe, -44; its claw, -19. 



[To be continued.] 



Catalogue qf f Books publisJied by the Essex Institute. 



JOURNAL OP THE ESSEX COUNTY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 1 vol. 



8vo. 1836-1852. pp. 135, $0 50 



PROCEEDINGS AND COMMUNICATIONS. 6 vols. 8 vo. 1848-1868. 



The series, In numbers, . . . . . . . 18 00 



Bound in cloth, . ' 24 00 



[These volumes contain a large number of descriptions and figures 

 of new species, especially of Corals, Insects, and Polyzoa; and many 

 valuable papers on Natural History. The first three volumes also 

 contain many important Historical papers. In addition to the papers 

 on special subjects the volumes contain the proceedings of the meet- 

 ings of the Institute, additions to the library and museum, and many 

 important verbal communications made at the meetings, etc.] 

 BULLETIN. 10 vols. 8vo. 1869-1878, . . . . . 10 00 

 Subscription per annum, 1 50 



THE BULLETIN, issued quarterly, a continuation of the "Proceed- 

 ings of the Essex Institute," contains an account of the Regular and 

 Field Meetings of the Society, and papers of scientific value. 



The volume for 1879 contains : The Fishes of Essex County, by G. 

 B. Goode and T. H. Bean, of the U. S. Fish Commission ; A paper 

 on the Solar Eclipse of 1878, by Mr. Winslow Upton, of the Harvard 

 Observatory ; The Trees and Shrubs of Essex County, by Mr. John 

 Robinson ; and other valuable and interesting articles. 



"Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. I, No. 3, p. 73, September, 1876. 



