336 SULID^ : GANNETS. 



Essex Inst., i, 1856, p. 221). Notwithstanding these 

 cases, which Dr. Coues allows, and Mr. Purdie thinks 

 good (Bull. Nutt. Club, i, 1876, p. 72; ii, 1877, p. 14), 

 Dr. Brewer excludes it from his catalogue of 1875, 

 with the remark that he prefers to place it on proba- 

 tion and await further proof (Pr. Bost. Soc, xvii, 1875, 

 p. 453). This proof he has the pleasure of producing 

 himself, a specimen having been shot on Cape Cod, Sept. 

 17, 1878, and brought to the Boston market, whence it 

 passed into the possession of the Messrs. E. O. and O. 

 Bangs, of Boston (Bull. Nutt. Club, iv, 1879, P- ^9^)- On 

 the alleged imperfection of the early record, see Pr. 

 Bost. Soc, XX, 1879, p. 276. 



