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unique Euspiza townsendi, Regxdus cuvieri, etc., or, like Dendrceca Mrtlandi, 
will turn up occasionally in the future at different points, or still again, 
as in the case of Centroxiyx bairdii, will be found in large numbers, time 
alone can decide.” It is with pleasure, therefore, that I can announce the 
capture of a second specimen of this species, so new to Ornithology, and 
particularly also because it was taken in a locality so far distant from 
where the first one was obtained. The specimen under consideration was 
shot by Mr. Christopher D. Wood, on the afternoon of May 12, 1877, in 
an apple orchard near Clifton, Delaware County, Pa. It proved to be a 
male, and answered to the description given by Mr. Brewster. It is, with- 
out doubt, a veritable specimen of H. leucohronchialis, and goes to prove 
the species a good one. It Avas first called to mj^ attention by Mr. Wood 
himself, who told me that he had shot a specimen of H. leucohronchialis 
near Clifton. He afterwards showed me the bird, which he had been com- 
paring with the plate of the former specimen, and found it to be identical. 
Whence these rarities come, whether they are abundant in certain sections, 
and the characters of the females, are matters not yet known ; yet it is more 
than likely that at no very distant day both the present species, as well as 
Helminthophaga lawrencei, may prove to be nearly if not quite as abun- 
dant as the other species of the same genus. — Spencer Trotter, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
The Mottled Owl as a Fisherman. — On NoA^ember 29, 1876, I 
took from a Mottled OwPs hole (Scops asio) the hinder half of a Woodcock 
(Philohela minor). Within tAvo weeks after I took tAvo Owls from the same 
hole, and on the 19th of January last I had the good fortune to take an- 
other. After extracting the Owl I put in my hand to see what else there 
was of interest, and found sixteen Horned Pouts (Amiurus atrarius), four 
of Avhich were alive. When it occurred to me that all the ponds in the 
vicinity Avere under at least tAvo feet of snoAV and ice, I could scarcely conjec- 
ture where the Horned Pouts could haA^e been captured. After visiting all 
the ponds, I found they liad most probably been captured in one fully a, mile 
aAvay, w^here some boys had been cutting holes through the ice to catch 
pickerel bait. The Owl probably stationed himself by the edge of the 
hole and seized the fish as they came to the surface. What a busy time he 
must have had flying thirty- two miles after sixteen Horned Pouts ! I may 
also state in this connection that I once foimd the ground under a Great 
Horned Owl’s nest (Bubo virginianus) literally strewn Avith fish-bones. — 
A. M. Frazar, Watertown, Mass. 
Breeding op Leach’s Petrel on the Coast of Maine. — In the Jan- 
uary number of the Bulletin (Vol. II, 1877) Mr. N. C. BroAAm refers to 
the Leach’s Petrel (Thalassidroma leucorrhoea, Linn.) “as found for the first 
time breeding on the New England coast,” and mentions meeting with its 
