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ture recorded on the label is October 10, 1876. Although he hunted 
carefully over equally desirable situations in other parts of the State, this 
Was the only place where it was found. This forms its most eastern rec- 
ord, excepting the single specimen taken by Mr. E. W. Nelson at River- 
dale, 111.* — H. B. Bailey. 
Audubon’s Warbler in Massachusetts. — While collecting in the 
neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass., November 15, 1876, I Avas fortunate 
enough to obtain a fine specimen of Audubon’s Warbler {Dendroeca audu- 
boni). It Avas a male, and the yelloAV of the throat Avas very plainly 
marked. Dr. Cones, in his “ Birds of the Northwest,” gives Laramie Peak 
as about the eastern limit of this species. Its occurrence here must, of 
course, be regarded as entirely accidental. — A. M. Frazar. 
Occurrence of the Sooty Tern in Massachusetts. — In Mr. Al- 
len’s “ Catalogue of the Birds of Massachusetts ” we find the Sooty Tern 
{Sterna fuliginosa) given, on the authority of Mr. E. A. Samuels, as a 
rare summer visitor to Muskegat Island. But for some reason Dr. Brewer, 
in his recent “ Catalogue of the Birds of Ncav England,” AvithdraAvs this 
species from the New England list, and challenges its right to be regarded 
as in any sense a New England bird. I have the pleasure of replacing 
this species by recording the capture of a fine adult male on the Merrimack 
River near LaAvrence, Mass., on October 29, 1876. I examined the speci- 
men at the store of Mr. Charles I. Goodale, taxidermist, Av^ho has finely 
preserved it, and it is now in the possession of Mr. A. W. Howland of 
Lawrence. — Ruthven Deane. 
The Black Gyr-Falcon {Falco sacer var. lahradora) in Massachu- 
setts. — A fine specimen of this Falcon was shot on Breed’s Island during 
the latter part of October, 1876. It proved to be a male, in nearly adult 
plumage, and is noAV in the collection of Mr. C. I. Goodale, through Avhose 
kindness I have had the pleasure of examining it. — C. B. Cory. 
Notes on Birds new to the Fauna op Maine, etc. — Of the follow- 
ing five species, three are here for the first time recorded as birds of Maine, 
another as found for the first time so far in the interior, and another as 
found for the first time breeding on the NeAV England coast. 
1. Ammodromus caudacutus Swain. Sharp-tailed Finch. — I 
have found this species, now, I believe, for the first time recorded as a 
bird of Maine, a rare inhabitant of a certain part of the great marsh in 
Scarborough. 
2. Passerculus princeps Maynard. Ipswich Sparrow. — On the 
9th of October, 1876, 1 met Avith one of these birds on a sandy point on the 
north Avest shore of LakeUmbagog, in New Hampshire. I should hesitate 
* See Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Vol. I, p. 40. 
