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BULLETIN OF THE NUTT ALL CLUB. 
Lower Fetch ora ” ; and it will be doubtless still more fully treated of in 
a forthcoming part of Mr. H. E. Dresser’s “ Birds of Europe.” — J. 
A. Harvie Brown, Cor. Mem., Dunipace House, Larhert, Scotland. 
' A Note on Cupidonia cupido var. pallidicinctus, Eidgway. — In the 
latter part of January, 1877, I found in Fulton Market about thirty speci- 
mens of this form ; they were generally unlit for preserving, but I got two 
in good condition. On examination they agreed accurately with Mr. 
Eidgway’s description (N. Am. Birds, Yol. Ill, p. 446). I ascertained that 
they came from Pierce City, Southwestern Missouri. I have been unable 
to make much inquiry for others since. I lately, learned from a large dealer 
that they had been quite abundant in market, all coming from Southern 
Missouri. The marketmen objected to buying them on account of their 
small size. I found their average weight to be one and three-fourths pounds, 
some weighing but one and a half pounds. All I talked with said they had 
not noticed them before this winter. — George N. Lawrence, New YorhJ 
Capture of the Egyptian Goose on Long Island. — On the 3d of 
January, 1877, I received a remarkably fine specimen of a species of 
Goose entirely unknown to me. The bird was killed in a pond of fresh 
water near Carnarsie, Long Island, and has every appearance of being a 
wild bird. The plumage is in fine condition, and the feet are free from 
warts. On exhibiting it to our well-known ornithologist, Mr. ,G. N. 
Lawrence of New York, he expressed great surprise, and promised to 
investigate the matter. I have since received from him the following 
communication : — 
“ The Goose shown me yesterday is the Egyptian Goose (CJienalopex 
cegyptiacus, Linn.). It inhabits all of Africa, and numerous specimens 
' have been killed in Great Britain. Its acquisition is worthy of being 
noted, and whether a straggler or an escaped specimen may be ascertained 
in the future.” 
The specimen will be placed in the Museum of the Long Island His- 
torical Society of Brooklyn. — John Akhurst, BrooUyn, N. Y. 
MacCown’s Longspur in Illinois. — While looking over a box of 
Snow-Buntings and Shore Larks in the market, January 15, 1877, 1 found 
a specimen of Plectrophanes maccowni, shot at Champaign, Illinois. Jan- 
uary 1 7, another box' containing Lapland Longspurs was sent from the same 
place, and among them was a second specimen of P. maccowni, which is 
now in the collection of C. N. Holden, Jr., Chicago. January 19 I ob- 
tained a third specimen from the same source, which has been sent to Mr. 
E. W. Nelson, of this city. They were all males, showing plainly the 
chestnut coloring on the bend of the wing and the peculiar white 
markings of the tail. This is, I think, the first record of the occurrence 
‘ of this bird in Illinois, if not east of Kansas. — Henry K. Coale, Chicago, 
Illinois. 
