



RARER BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 645 
ments of several different bones of this bird in June of the 
same year at the latter locality, where also Mr. PIN De had 
obtained them in previous years. 
It appears, from information received too late to enable 
me to insert them in their proper places, that the following 
species should also be added to those already recorded from 
Massachusetts : 
SwaLLow-TaILeD Hawk.  JVauclerus furcatus Vigors. 
From Mr. Bennett I have received a description of a hawk 
seen near Whately, not long since, that was unquestionably 
of this species ; but, so far as I am aware, it has not yet been 
taken in Massachusetts. Although a southern species, it is 
rather common in the interior as far north as Iowa, and 
stragglers have been taken along the Atlantic coast as far 
north as New York. It can only occur in New England, 
however, as an extremely rare visitor. 
A South American Humming Bird, Argytria maculata 
Cab. and Heine, was taken in Cambridge in August, 1865, 
by Mr. Wm. Brewster. It seems almost incredible that so 
small a bird shonld wander so far from its usual haunts, 
since its real habitat is the northern countries of South 
America; yet after carefully investigating the history of this 
specimen, it seems to me there is no reason to doubt its cap- 
ture in this state. It is possible, of course, that it may 
have been brought here in a cage and have escaped, but that 
such was the case does not appear to be at all probable. 
Gray Kine Brb. Tyrannus Dominicencis Rich. A speci- 
men of this species, now in Mr. Vickary's collection, was 
shot in Lynn, early in October, 1869, by Mr. Charles I. 
Goodale. Although essentially a West Indian species, it is 
not uncommon in Florida, but only occasionally ranges so 
far north as Charleston, South Carolina. It hence forms one 
of the most remarkable additions to the fauna of the state 
yet recorded. The specimen was evidently a young bird, or 
a bird of the year. | 
