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BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL 
(StmvEl MixM, 
A Humming-Bird new to the Fauna of the United States. — I 
have again the pleasure of adding another bird new to our Fauna. A 
Humming-Bird (male), taken within the limits of Fort Brown, Texas, 
August 17, 1876, and forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution for iden- 
tification, has j ust been determined to be Amazilia cervineiventris. It much, 
resembles Pyrrliophcena riefferi, and has rusty (instead of white) leg puffs. 
• — James C. Merrill, Fort Brown, Texas, December 4, 1876. 
Note ON Podiceps dominicus.* — This species was long since attrib- 
uted (perhaps erroneously) to “ California,” by Dr. William Gambel ; it 
was included by Baird among Birds of the Mexican Boundary, apparently 
on strength of its eggs found at Matamoras, and figured in his “ Birds of 
North America” (ed. of 1860^ not of 1858). It was also formally pre- 
sented by me as North American (Birds of the Northwest, p. 736, where 
its habitat is given as north of the Kio Grande). — Elliott Coues. 
Eastward Bange of the Ferruginous Buzzard (Archibuteo ferru- 
gineus). — During the past summer (1876j I found this bird to be common 
on the prairies of Nebraska and Wyoming, where it might almost be con- 
sidered as one of the characteristic species. In 1873 I observed it on the 
Pembina Mountains, in Eastern Dakota, near the Bed Biver of the North ; 
and in 1874 I found it nesting in Northern Montana, on one of the Two 
Forks of Milk Biver. In years previous I had only seen it in Arizona 
and Southern California. I can now record its range still farther east- 
ward, — beyond the Mississippi, as I lately saw one in Illinois, a few miles 
from the river. The great size of the bird, its white tail, almost as con- 
spicuous as that of the Bald Eagle, and white under parts, render it un- 
mistakable at any ordinary distance. Its geographical distribution is 
apparently nearly coincident with that of the Lanier Falcon {Falco polya- 
grus Cass.), a bird which I have also found very numerous in Nebraska, 
Wyoming, and open portions of Colorado. Both species are. prairie Hawks, 
subsisting largely or chiefly upon the small rodent mammals which abpund 
in such, regions. — Elliott Coues, Washington, D. C., October, 1876. 
Occurrence of Leconte’s Bunting (Coturniculus lecontei Bon.) in 
Iowa. — One of my correspondents, Mr. E. W. Newton, of Franklin 
Grove, 111., writes me that when on a recent collecting trip through Iowa, 
he had the good fortune to secure twenty-two specimens of this species in 
a small slough situated in Colo, Story County, near the centre of the 
State, one of which he kindly sent me for identification. The date of cap- 
* See this Bulletin, Vol. I, p. 88, November, 1876. 
