MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 23 



REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



During the past year the following specimens have been pur- 

 chased : a South American Condor (Sarcorhamphus gryphus, 

 female) taken in Patagonia ; nine species, including seventeen 

 specimens of Linnaean topotypes; an albino Towhee (probably 

 Pipilo maculatus megalonyx) taken at Pyramid Lake, Nevada ; a 

 young albino Bluebird (Sialia sialis) from Sherborn, Massachu- 

 setts ; a pair of Kirtland's Warblers (Bendroica kirtlandi) with 

 nest and five eggs, from Big Bend, Michigan ; the nest and two 

 eggs of Clarke's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) collected in 

 British Columbia. 



There have been acquired by gift : from Mr. William Barbour, 

 an egg of the Great Auk (Plautus impennis) ; from Messrs. J. W. 

 Hastings and L. J. de G de Milhau, a series of forty-one eggs with 

 a few nests of birds from Iceland ; from Mr. William A. Jeffries, the 

 type of the Violet-throated Hummingbird (Trochilus violajugulum) 

 taken at Santa Barbara, California ; from Mr. Thomas Barbour, a 

 Northern Shrike {Lanius borealis) from Brookline, Massachusetts, 

 an egg of Leach's Petrel (Ocea?iodro?na leucorhoa) from Little 

 Duck Island, Maine, a Bahama Parrot (Amazona bahamensis) from 

 the Bahamas, and a Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) from Nor- 

 way ; from Dr. John Bryant, a European Wigeon (Anas penelope, 

 male) taken at Swan Island, South Carolina ; from Mr. George 

 Nelson, an American Robin (Merula migratoria, male) from Ar- 

 lington Heights, Massachusetts, and a nest of the Golden-winged 

 Warbler (Helminthophila chrysoptera) taken in Lexington, Massa- 

 chusetts ; from Mrs. G. H. Robbins, a Passenger Pigeon (Ucto- 

 pistes migratorius, male) killed in Carlisle, Massachusetts, about 

 thirty years ago ; from Mr. Walter Ela, an immature male Bald 

 Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) from Wareham, Massachusetts ; 

 from Mr. Samuel Henshaw, a young Yellow-throated Vireo ( Vireo 

 flavifrons) and a Domestic Pigeon (Oolumba livid) both from Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts ; from Mr. Leon C. Cole, an e<?g of the 



