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ity during the season of 1872 — Strix oc- 

 cidental is {Xantus) and Glaucidiuni phala- 

 noides {Daud) — about which 1 may )iave 

 something to say hereafter. 



Another Gannet {St/la bassatia) from 

 the interior of New York State. 



In the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornitholog- 

 ical Club for July, 1880, (Vol. V., No. 3, 

 page 190* Leslie A. Lee records the cap- 

 ture of a Gannet, or " Solan Goose," {Su/a 

 bassana) on Grasse River, in the Town of 

 Canton, in St. Lawrence County, New York, 

 December loth, 1879. 



Mr. W. L. Rich, of Saratoga Springs, has 

 recently sent me an excellent description, 

 accompanied by a life-size sketch of the 

 head, of another of these curious birds that 

 were shot " on the wing " at Saratoga Lake, 

 Saratoga County, New York, on November 

 nth, 1880, by a Mr. Schuyler. It is a 

 young male in the immature speckled plu 

 mage, and weighed, when shot, five pounds. 

 It measured 38/i inches in length, with a 

 spread of 70 inches. This is the identical 

 specimen recorded as a " Cormorant [Gra- 

 culus carboy'' in a note in your journal for 

 July, 1881, (Vol. VI , No. 5, page 39 )—C. 

 Hart Merriain, M. D., Locust Grove, N. Y. 



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Nests and Eggs of American Birds. 

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