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ScoMBEREsox sauritSj Flem. The Saury — called 



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here by the fishermen, the biU-Jish. Not unfrequenlly 

 taken on some parts of the coast in nets. Two specimens 

 have lately been cast ashore at Nahant — one of which, 



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very perfect, was presented to the Society by Mr. Jona- 

 than Johnson of that place. 



MuR^NoiDES guitdtay Lacepede. The hutter-jish. 

 Found in large numbers under the rocks on beaches at 

 low tide. 



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Physis furcdtus, Flem. The great forked heard. 

 Incorrectly called by our fishermen the Hoke. 



Gasterosteus quadracusy Mitciiill. The four 

 spined stickle-back. — A specimen of this pretty little fish, 

 one inch and three lines in length, was brought me by 

 Mr. Joseph P, Couthouy, who found it thrown upon the 

 beach of South Boston Point, at the entrance of Boston 

 Harbor. 



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ART. XIX.— REMARKS ON THE POSITIONS ASSUMED 

 BY GEORGK ORD, ESQ. IN RELATION TO THE COW , 

 BLACK-BIRD, (ICTERUS AGRIPENNIS) IN LOUDON'S 



MACxAZINE FOR FEBRUARY, 1836. By Thomas M Brewer. 

 Read July 6t1i, 1B3G. 



" Of all the known birds that are indio'enous to North 

 America" says Mr. Ord, in a communication to Loudon's 

 Magazine for February, 1836, " perhaps there is not one 

 whose habits are so interesting as those of the cow- 

 bunting, cow-bird, cow-pen bird or cow black-bird, 

 (the Fringilla pecoris of Latham) ; and yet there is 

 hardly one, whose history has been Involved in greater 

 obscurity." These observations are just ; and to the 



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