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BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL 
All matter enclosed between quotation-marks is from the manu- 
script notes of Mr. Eidgway, who has kindly furnished them for 
use in the present connection. The remainder, with a few excep- 
tions (where due credit is given), are from my own observations. 
The first list comprises the fifteen species new to the State. 
1. Myiadestes townsendi, Cah. Townsend’s Solitaire. — A fine 
specimen of this bird was obtained December 16, 1875, by Mr. Charles 
Douglas at Waukegan, Illinois. The specimen is considerably darker 
than one in my collection from Utah, collected about the same time of year. 
2. Coturniculus lecontei, Bon. Leconte’s Bunting. — A single 
specimen of this rare bird was obtained by the writer at Eiverdale, Il- 
linois, May 13, 1875. It was flushed from a slight depression in the open 
prairie near the Calumet Eiver, where the moisture had caused an early 
growth of coarse grass, about three inches in height. After darting off in 
an erratic course for a few rods, it suddenly turned, and alighting ran 
rapidly through the grass, from which it was with difficulty started again 
and secured. 
3. Ammodromus caudacutus var. nelsoni, Allen. Western 
Short-tailed Finch. — This variety of the Sharp-tailed Finch was first 
obtained September 17, 1874, in the Calumet Marsh, and described by Mr. 
J. A. Allen in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 
(December, 1874), with a few notes regarding its habits. Since then I have 
learned of its capture at several widely separated localities in Northern 
Illinois, it appearing to frequent all suitable situations. The 12th of 
June, 1875, I saw several of these birds in the dense grass bordering 
Calumet Lake, where they were undoubtedly breeding. They were very 
numerous November 10, 1875, in the wild rice bordering Grass Lake, 
in Lake County, Illinois. A sharp frost that night caused them to leave 
so suddenly that the next, afternoon not one was to be found. 
4. Chordeiles popetue var. henryi, Cassin. Western Night- 
Hawk. — Two specimens of this variety were obtained by my friend Mr. 
F. L. Eice near Waukegan, Illinois, July, 1875. In the same vicinity I 
have obtained several specimens of this variety the present season. In 
comparing specimens from Illinois with typical specimens of henryi in 
my collection from the Eocky Mountains, I find they agree in all the 
characteristics upon which the variety is based. 
5. Buteo borealis var. calurus, Cassin. Black Eed-Tail. — In my 
collection is a fine adult specimen of this variety which was captured 
near Chicago in April, 1873, by my friend, Mr. Charles Smith. 
6. Ardea rufa, Bodd. Eeddish Egret. — This species w^as quite com- 
mon in the vicinity of Cairo during the last week of August, 1875. The 
unusually high water of that season caused a much larger number of herons 
to appear along the rivers in this vicinity than usual. Although Ardea 
