1878.] 307 [Brewer. 



Ancylocheilus subarquatus Kaup. The second recorded, 

 specimen of this species in New England is reported as having been 

 shot in East Boston, May, 1876 (Nutt. Bull., i, p. 51), and another, 

 subsequently recorded, in Scarboro, Me., Sept. 9, 1875, by Mr. Philip 

 G. Brown (Nutt. Bull., n, p. 28). 



Actidromas Bairdii Coues. This species has been taken at 

 Upton, Me., by Mr. Win. Brewster, Sept. 1, 1875 (Nutt. Bull., I, p. 19), 



Machetes pugnax Gray. This species was included in my 

 catalogue on the score of a single specimen taken by Mr. Wm, 

 Brewster, on the Newburyport marshes, May 20, 1871. The same 

 gentleman has since procured one, Sept. 8, at Upton, Me. (Nutt. 

 Bull., i, p. 19). 



Beeurvirostra amerieana Gm. Mr. Merriam gives this as a 

 bird of Conn. (Birds of Conn., p. 103), on the authority of Josiah 

 G. Ely. It had been taken in a net near Say brook, in 1871. This 

 is the only instance of its capture within our limits that is on record, 

 all others having been extra-limital or without particulars. 



Rallus crepitans Gm. The New England collection of this 

 Society possesses a fine specimen of this rail, taken in Boston Har- 

 bor in May, 1876, and presented by Mr. Boss. This species is 

 known to breed in southwestern Connecticut, but "this is the only 

 known instance of its capture in Massachusetts. 



Rallus elegans Aud. The cabinet of Mr. Willard S. Brewer 

 possesses a fine specimen of this species, shot in Nahant in the spring 

 of 1876. There was no previous record of this bird for New Eng- 

 land, except West Haven, Conn. 



Porzana jamaicensis Cassin. Mr. Purdie reports this bird as 

 procured in Plymouth, Mass. It was previously recorded as found 

 in Connecticut, where it appears to be not at all uncommon. 



Ibis alba Vieill. This species is recorded as a bird of Connecti- 

 cut by Mr. Merriam (ibid., p. 110) on the strength of a single speci- 

 men met with by Mr. G. B. Grinnell within ten miles of New Haven. 

 Although the bird was not captured, it appears to have been so well 

 identified that there can be no well-founded doubts as to its specific 

 reality. It was observed May 23, 1875 (Am. Nat., ix, 470). 



Bernicla leucopsis Linn. A head and neck of the Barnacle 

 Goose is now in the possession of my young friends, Mr. Russell 

 Hooper and Mr. Outram Bangs, of Boston. These were all that 

 was unplucked of a goose found in the Boston market this winter, 

 and which had been shot in Marshfield, Vt. From the locality it is 



