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BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL 
sible aid in its support, and feeling also that the Club had 
given some token of its earnestness, the leading ornithologists 
of the United States were invited to co-operate with the Club 
as either resident or corresponding members. Upon their 
election the resident members of the Club were gratified to 
receive from the gentlemen so elected not only letters accept- 
ing membership, but containing expressions of the warmest 
interest in the objects and prosperity of the Club, together 
with offers of hearty assistance in the maintenance of the 
Bulletin as a permanent journal of Ornithology. 
With the present number the Bulletin becomes somewhat 
changed in its character, and greatly improved in typographical 
appearance. It is hereafter intended not only to present in 
each number original communications, but to give short notices 
of recent ornithological publications, especially such as relate 
to American Ornithology, and also a variety of notes and 
general miscellany. With the promises of literary support 
already received (see Prospectus), the Club publishes its second 
number of the Bulletin, feeling that its establishment as a 
journal creditable to American ornithologists is- assured. 
REGARDING BUTEO VULGARIS IN NORTH AMERICA. 
BY EGBERT RIDGWAY. 
After having been repeatedly given as a North American species, 
in consequence of the erroneous identification of some one or other 
of its strictly American congeners, this common European bird has 
at last a claim to be included in our fauna. Such at least is the 
case according to the incontrovertible evidence presented in Mr. 
Maynard’s article in the last number of this Bulletin (Vol. I. No. 1, 
pp. 2-6). The specimen upon which these remarks are based is a 
veritable B. vulgaris^ as we are fully satisfied from a personal in- 
spection ; but, instead of concurring in the statement that “ three 
specimens of the Common Buzzard have actually been taken within 
our limits,” we believe, on the contrary, that only the one in ques- 
tion has been procured this side of the Atlantic, so far as the 
