o QUARTERLY BUELLTIN. \ 



^ I 



from H. chrysoptera. The first notice of this specimen appeared 

 in the "American Sportsman," vol.5, p. 33. To speculate on the 

 probable home or range of a bird so little known would be at 

 the present time idle. Whether it must oe placed m the same 

 category with the unique Euspiza Townsendi, Eegulus Cuvieri, 

 etc.,°or like Dendrmca KirUandi, will lurn up occasionally in 

 the future at different points, or still again as in the case of Cen- 

 tronyx Bairdii, will be found in large numbers, time alone 

 can decide. Every fixed species of bird is probably common 

 somewhere. There is always some well stocked reservoir hew- 

 ever restricted in area, from which the choicest rarities emanate, 

 but to locate this avian well-spring is not seldom an undertak- 

 ing of difficulty. 



As previously remarked the differences in coloration in the 

 present bird from any of its allies are so great, and of such a 

 nature, as to render any theory of accidental variation exceed- 

 ingly unlikely, while hybrids— at least among the smaller spe- 

 cies of undomesticated birds— are of such shadowy and proble- 

 matical existence that their probable bearing upon the present 

 case is hardly worthy of consideration. 



It is not a little remarkable that another species* in the same 

 genus as this, and one too apparently quite as strongly charac 

 terized, should have been brought to light at so nearly the same 

 time. Bull. N.0.0. I. April. 1878. p. /- ^ . 



THE COMMON BUZZARD HAWK (BUTEO VULGARIS) OF 



EUROPE IN NORTH AMERICA. 



BY C. J. MAYNAED. 



Late in the\utumn of 1878 I received a box of bird skins 

 from Mr. J. D. Allen, of Paw Paw, Mich. Tliey consisted 

 mainly of Hawks, among which was a specimen that instantly 

 attracted my attention, for it was quite peculiar in its markings. 

 The sldn was evidently that of a Buteo, but I could not make it 

 agree with any of the plumages of the species wliich had come 

 under my observation. Tliis was tlic result of a hasty examin- 

 ation for being extremely busy at the time I laid it one side for 

 further compari^ori^ 



Late r stitdy upon it proved as nearly as possible, withou t 

 * jlej^nthophaga Lmorencii, llettick. Fvoc. Acad. Natural Science, 

 Phi><l874, pi. 15, p. 220. 



Recent Additions to North American 

 Avifauaa, J. A. Alien, 



6 Helminthophaga leucobronchialis, Brewster, sp. nov. WmxK- 

 THROATEDWAKBT.EK.-An>. Sportsman, V, 33, Oct. 17, 1874 ; Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, I, 1876, 1, plate. Massachusetts. 



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