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BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL 
The following year (1874) the project of publishing a 
Bulletin was agitated, but it was finally thought that the 
time for such an undertaking had not yet arrived. The 
American Sportsman wms then adopted as a temporary me- 
dium of publication, and during the following year quite a 
number of the more important communications read before 
the Club were published in its columns. * At the same time 
^ As a matter of permanent record of the work of the Club prior to the in- 
ception of the Bulletin, the following list of the principal articles read before 
the Club, and published in the American Sportsman and elsewhere, is here 
appended. 
1. A New Species of North American Warbler {Helminthophaga leucobron- 
cMalis). By Wm. Brewster. Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 33, Oct. 17, 1874. 
[The first description of the species. See also Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. I. 
No. 1, pp. ], 2, and Plate I.] 
2. A New Species of Finch {Ammodromus melanoleucus) from Florida. By 
C. J. Maynard. Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 248, Jan. 16, 1875. [Collected in 
the marshes of Salt Lake, Florida, by Mr. C. J. Maynard. This is the form of 
Ammodromus previously (Bull. Essex Inst., V, p. 198, Dec., 1873) described by 
Mr. R. Ridgway as A, maritimus var. nigrescens.'] 
3. A New Bird {Sterna regia) to Massachusetts. By William Brewster. 
Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 249, Jan. 16, 1875. [The record of the capture of 
two specimens, $ and 9 j Nantucket Island, July 1, 1874, by Messrs. C. J. 
Maynard and Wm. Brewster. The female bore marks of having just laid. 
Both specimens were in somewhat peculiar plumage.] 
4. Some Notes on a New Species of North American Tern. By Wm. Brew- 
ster. Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 249, Jan. 16, 1875. [Notice of a specimen 
of Sterna portlandica^ Ridgway, collected on Muskeget Island, Mass., July 1, 
1870.] 
5. The Loggerhead Shrike in Massachusetts. By C. J. Maynard. Amer. 
Sports., Vol. V, p. 313, Feb. 13, 1875. [Record of the capture of a specimen 
of Collurio ludovicianus at Newton ville, Mass.] 
6. Occurrence of the Fork-tailed Gull {Xema sabinei) in Massachusetts. By 
Wm. Brewster. Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 370. [Record of a specimen (the 
first taken in New England and the third taken in the United States) captured 
in Boston Harbor, Sept. 27, 1874,] 
7. The Nidification of the Blue Crow {GymnoMtta cyanocephala) and of the 
Gray-headed Snowbird {Junco caniceps). By Charles E. Aiken (Cor. Memb.). 
Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p. 370, March 13, 1875. [First description of the 
nests and eggs of these two species.] 
8. Occurrence of the Mocking-Bird in Massachusetts. By E. C. Greenwood. 
Amer. Sports., Vol. V, p, 370, March 13, 1875. [Record of the capture of spe- 
cimens of Mimus polyglottus in Newtonville, with a notice, by Mr. Ruthven 
Deane, of others taken elsewhere in Eastern Massachusetts.] 
9. Habits of the Mourning Warbler. By Win. Brewster. Rod and Gun 
