136 Fossil Bones from Oregon Territory. 



It may not be amiss for the reviewer to add to the above account, 

 that the above triple nest was found in Roxbury, Mass. ; the cotton 

 of which it was built had been easily obtained by the bird, the 

 family near whose house it was found having freely distributed 

 pieces of that article on adjacent trees and bushes, for the express 

 purpose of being used for nests by the birds. In the third story 

 of this nest a brood of four young yellowbirds had been reared 

 before the nest was taken. 



In speaking of the prairie warbler, Sylvia discolor, Mr. Audu- 

 bon says : " I never saw it farther east than the ridges of the 

 Broad Mountain, about twelve miles from Mauch Chunk." It 

 is not an uncommon bird in New York, Connecticut, and Mas- 

 sachusetts ; we have known of its breeding in each of these 

 states. 



There are many, very many interesting portions of this work, 

 descriptive of the habits and peculiarities of the genera which it 

 contains, we should delight in transferring to our pages did the 

 nature of our Journal permit. Wherever they referred to impor- 

 tant discoveries we have already briefly mentioned them, and 

 our limits forbid us to do more ; more especially after having, in 

 a previous number, already spoken so much in extenso of the 

 general subject. 



A third volume of this work is already half completed. When 

 it is concluded we intend to refer to the subject again, and to con- 

 tinue our analysis of the new and important facts on ornithology 

 furnished by the author. Till then we must bid him once more 

 adieu, with the full assurance that if his present work continues 

 to improve as it has done, he will not fail to add even to his pres- 

 ent fame — what we were once disposed to believe impossible. 



Art. XVI. — Notice of Fossil Bones from Oregon Territory ^ in 

 a letter to Dr. C. T. Jackson; by H. C. Perkins. 



My dear Sir — Having recently received, by the generosity 

 of Capt. John H. Couch, of this place, several fine specimens of 

 fossil remains, some of which would seem to be somewhat rare, 

 and perhaps unique, when viewed in relation to their locality at 

 least, I herewith send you a short history and description of the 

 specimens, together with drawings of the most interesting, in the 



