NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
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Junco Oregonus., (Towns.), Scl. Female, shot in Watertown, 
Mass., March 25th, 1874. This specimen is quite typical, and 
its identity has been confirmed by my friend, Mr. H. W. Hen- 
shaw, who has recently examined it. 
Corvus ossifragus^ Wils. On the morning of March 16th, 1875, 
I saw a bird of this species flying swiftly over our place in Cam- 
bridge. It was pursued by at least twenty-five or thirty of our 
common species, ( Corvus Americanus J, and at each renewnal of 
their attacks gave utterance to its peculiar and unmistakable 
notes. Having thoroughly familiarized myself with its voice 
and motions in the South, where it is abundant, I feel confidant 
that I could not in this instance have made any mistake. The 
very fact of its having drawn the angry attention of so many 
common crows, at a season too when their gregarious habits are 
given up for more social relations, proves that it was to them 
an object of novelty and one deemed worthy of suspicion and 
hatred, I am not aware that any such feeling is maintained 
when the two species come together in numbers ; but however 
this may be matters little, as our bird habitually treats all sus- 
picious strangers in a like manner, and the collector is not sel- 
dom indebted for a rare hawk or owl to the watchful eye and 
clamorous alarum of this sable sentinel. 
Vireo Pkiladelpkicus , Cass. On Sept. 7th, 1875, I shot a 
female of this beautiful little species in Cambridge, Mass. It 
was feeding in company with several individuals of Vireo olioa- 
ceus., in a low willow tree. 
Tringa Bairdii.^ Coues. I secured a fine male of this spe- 
cies at Upton, Oxford County, Maine, Sept. 1, 1875. When first 
observed it was sitting alone on a mud fiat at the foot of 
Lake Umbagog. 
P fiilomachus pugnax Gr. Female. Killed at Upton, Ox- 
ford County, Maine, September 8th, 1874. , It was shot while 
flying on the marshes at the mouth of Cambridge River. My at- 
tention was attracted to it by its peculiar hawk-like flight, which, 
provided it be a constant attendant of its motions, should at 
once distinguish it while on wing from any other Tringce. I 
arn aware that this species has already been given in Mr. G. 
A. Boardman’s “List of the Birds of Calais, Me.,” but Dr. 
Brewer informs me that none of the specimens therein referred 
to were taken within Maine limits. The only authentic N. E. 
