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from New York, 



the fact that the adult 

 noticeabl) li-hter and n 

 birds. That this is due 

 taken i)y my friend, Mr. 

 in which the light col< 

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'vduclis cardurlis {\:\\\\\.\ (ioldfinch. — Keid ('84,1)1). 196 - 

 197) says, "1 observed a single specimen of the Kvn-oi)ean (Gold- 

 finch. Cardmlis chgans, near Harrington Sound, in April, i<S75 : 

 it was very wild npd 1 rould not get near it, but I imagine it 

 must have been an escaped prisoner." This bird is now com- 

 mon in Bermuda, and I did not find it at all hard to approach, in 

 spite of the fact that Bangs and Bradlee (:oi, p. 256) state that 

 it " is exceedingly shy and wary." By far the largest flock that 

 I saw was at the Flatts, on August tenth, and contained about 

 thirty birds. On June twenty-ninth Mr. Owen Bryant found a 

 newly built nest of the Goldfinch on Trunk Island, Harrington 

 Sound ; it was in a cedar, some twenty-five feet from the ground 

 and six or seven feet from the trunk of the tree. On July sixth 

 it contained four eggs. 



611. Progne siibis (.?) (Linn.). Purple Martin.— On August 

 fourteenth, while between Coney Island and the Ferry Reach, 

 I saw two Martins flying past the Martello Tower, southward. 

 I was unable to determine the species, whether Purple or Cuban, 

 but as the range of the Cuban Martin is, according to Chapman 

 ('95, p. 320), "Southern Florida south to Cuba and probably 

 Central America," the birds were in all likelihood Purple Martins. 

 Reid ('84, p. 190) states that this bird " has only .... appeared 

 on one occasion, during the 'entrada' of September, 1849- 

 when It was numerous." I looked this matter up in the " Nat- 

 ural History of the Bermudas," a collection by Miss H. T. 

 Hurdis of scattered notes by her father, John L. Hurdis. His 



