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in the same locality. Possibly this Eagle was mate to the fine female 
whose capture was noted by Prof. A. E. Verrill of New Haven in the 
January ‘Auk’ (XIV, p. 891). —C. L. Rawson, Norwich, Conn. 
Northern Hawks in Massachusetts. — The American Goshawk (Acczpz- 
ter atricapillus) has been abundant in this section the past fall and winter. 
I myself have secured three specimens, one of which I caught in a steel 
trap. All that I have secured or seen, except one, were in adult plumage. 
On Feb. 25, 1897, I drove within ten yards of a Rough-legged Hawk 
(Archibuteo sanctt-johannis), in the light phase of plumage, perched by the 
roadside on the edge of a grove of white pines. —HERBERT K. Jos, 
North Middleboro, Mass. 
Swainson’s Hawk in Michigan. — I wish to record the capture of a 
Swainson’s Hawk (Buzeo swaznsont) taken by myself in Cheboygan 
County, Mich., in October, 1883. I can find but three other records for the 
State. — NorMAN A. Woop, Anz Arbor, Mich. 
Note on Elanus glaucus.— Benjamin Smith Barton’s ‘ Fragments of 
the Natural History of Pennsylvania,’ published in 1799, is a folio of pp. 
xviii 24, so rare as to be little-known or almost forgotten. Many 
ornithologists might never have heard of it, had it not been for Hzrundo 
horreorum, which Baird adopted in 1858 for the Barn Swallow. But in- 
1878 I gave a careful analysis of this tract (B. Coll. Vall., pp. 592-594), 
which made all its ornithological points accessible ; and had due attention 
been paid to this matter, we should not now have to change certain names 
which have obtained undeserved currency through the deservedly high 
authority of the A. O. U. Check-List. Some objections which have been 
urged against Bartram’s names do not extend to those of Barton, who was 
a strict binomialist, and whose identifiably described species must conse- 
quently be recognized if they happen to fall under our rule of priority. 
One of these is ‘‘ Falco glaucus of Bartram,” whose name and sufficient 
description are repeated by Barton, with due binomiality on p.11 of his 
work. “Now,” as I observed (/. c., p. 593), ‘those who decline to have 
anything to do with Bartram, on the ground of his untenable nomen- 
clature, will necessarily observe that Elanus glaucus (Barton, 1799) must 
replace E. leucurus,’ as Vieillot’s Milvus lewcurus dates 1818. Our 
Committee can hardly plead ignorance of the fact that H. glaucus has 
also stood as the name of the White-tailed Kite in my ‘ Key’ since 1884 ; 
for that would argue an incredible unfamiliarity on their part with current 
ornithological literature. The mistake may be regarded as an oversight 
which we can hasten to correct in the next Supplement to the Check-List. 
Reference to the Bibliography above mentioned will reveal a number of 
other Bartonian names which need attention. For example, Certhia 
familiaris fusca (Barton, 1799) ; for Barton’s C. fusca, fully described, ante- 
dates Bonaparte’s C. americana of 1838, as the name of the American 
