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QUARTERLY BUELLTIN. 
from H. clirysoptem. 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 be placed in the same 
category with the unique Euspiza Townsendi, Regulus Cuvieriy 
etc., or like Dendrceca KirJdandi^ will turn up occasionally in 
the future at different points, or still again as in the case of Cen- 
tronyx Bairdii, wdll 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 how- 
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 unlikel}", 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 liardly 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. 
THE COMMON BUZZ AED HAWK (BUTEO VULGARIS) OF 
EUKOPE IN NOKTH AMERICA. 
BY C. J. MAYNAKD. 
Late in the autumn of 1873 I received a box of bird skins 
from Mr. J. D. Allen, of Paw Paw, Mich. They consisted 
mainly of Hawks, among which >\as a specimen that instantly 
attracted m}^ attention, for it was quite peculiar in its markings. 
The skin was evidently that of a Buteo, but I could not make it 
agree with any of the plumages of the species which had come 
under my observation. This was the result of a hasty examin- 
ation, for being extremely busy at the time I laid it one side for 
further comparison. 
Later study upon it proved as nearly as possible, without 
* Helminthophaga Latorencii^ Herrick. Proc. Acatl. Natural Science, 
Phila., 1874, pi. 15, p. 220. 
