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'•flower" one and three-quarter inches in diameter and in some cases 

 two leaves on stem in place of flowers; wild sarsaparilla in blossom 

 October 26, 1916. 



OXYBAPHUS HlRSUTUS IN VERMONT 



Mrs. Mary C. Munson of Manchester found Oxybaphus hirsutus 

 (Pursh) Sweet in her yard, growing as a weed. 



Migration Lists 



The attaches of the Fairbanks museum kept the usual complete 

 bird migration list at St. Johnsbury during the season of 1916. The 

 list numbers 114 species including a number of unusual records which 

 are mentioned elsewhere in this bulletin. The Rutland list kept by 

 D. E. Kent, G. H. Ross and G. L. Kirk for 1916 numbers 145 species. 



New Mint for Vermont 



A new mint has been added to the Vermont flora Dracocephalum 

 parviflorum Nutt having been discovered in the west part of the town 

 of Clarendon by L. H. Potter of Clarendon. 



Misstatement Corrected 



In the paper "Mammals of Vermont," published in Vermont 

 Botanical and Bird Club Joint Bulletin No. 2, April, 1916, it was stated 

 by the author, G. L. Kirk, that the records for the smoky shrew, Sorex 

 fumeus Miller, referred to in the article, were the first for Vermont. 

 Mr. A. H. Howell of the United States biological survey calls attention 

 to the fact that he collected the little animal on Mount Mansfield some 

 years previous to the trapping of the specimens cited in the bulletin 

 and the first records were published in the Auk. Mr. Howell's mammal 

 article had not come to the attention of the writer of the Vermont 

 paper at the time the 1916 bullein appeared. Mr. Howell states that 

 he also secured the northern form of the red squirrel, Sciurus hud- 

 sonicus gymnicus Bangs on Mount Mansfield. All Vermont specimens 

 secured by Mr. Kirk (including collections made from Berkshire to the 

 Massachusetts line) have been the more southern 8. h. loquax Bangs. 



Unusual Plight of Pipits 



Pipits were unusually abundant in the Otter Creek valley about 

 Rutland in the fall of 1916. While these birds are regular migrants 

 on Lake Champlain they are uncommon or irregular in the interior. 

 They began to appear on September 28, were about in great numbers 

 October 8-10 and stragglers were seen until November 5. 



