Species Errois'eously Recorded 



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15. Serinus serinus (Linn.). Serin Finch. — One was 

 taken near Springfield in November, 1866.^ It was probably an 

 escaped cage bird. 



SPECIES ERRONEOUSLY RECORDED. 



1. Podilymbus cristatus Linn. Crested Grebe. — An 

 Old World species mentioned by several of the earlier writers, 

 doubtless through misconception of its actual range. 



2. Procellaria pelagica Linn. Storsiy Petrel. — This 

 pelagic species was included by the earlier writers, but it has not 

 been positively known to occur in the State. 



3. Puffinus cinereus (Gmel.). Black-tailed Shearwater. 

 — A Pacific species, included in Putnam's Essex County List,. 

 1856, doubtless through a mistake in identity.^ 



4. Mergus albellus (Linn.). Smew. — E. A. Samuels says 

 that this bird is very rare in the autumn.' There is however, no 

 reason as yet to suppose that the species occurs here. 



5. Phalacrocorax graculus (Linn.). Green Cormorant. — 

 This species is included in Peabody's List,* but his remarks prob- 

 ably refer to the Common Cormorant (P. carbo) and not to this 

 European species.* 



6. Buteo borealis [Falco] harlani (Aud.). Harlan's 

 Hawk. — Included in Peabody's 1839 list on Nuttall's authority. 

 There is however no reason for supposing that it occurs here.^ 



7. Buteo cooperi Cass. Cooper's Red-tailed Hawk. — 

 A bird supposed to be of this species was taken near Cambridge, 



'Allen; Amer. Nat., Vol. Ill, No. 12, Feb., 1870, p. 635, p. 37 of separate. 

 = Putnam; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. I, 1856, p. 222. 

 'Samuels; Birds of Mass., 1864, p. 13. 

 ■• Peabody ; Birds of Mass., 1839, p. 397. 

 '" Peabody; Birds of Mass., 1839, p. 269. 



