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BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL CLUB. 
he had just found a beautiful nest of Spermopliila moreleti, which proves 
to be a rather abundant species. — J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 
A Cuckoo’s Egg in a Cedar-Bird’^ Nest. — On July 19, 1874, while 
collecting in a piece of swampy second growth about four miles from 
Utica, N. Y., I discovered a nest in a small sapling about eight feet from 
the ground, which, on examination, I found to contain four eggs of the 
Cedar- Bird {Ampelis cedrorum), and one egg of the Cuckoo. From the 
damp situation, from the appearance of the egg itself, and from the fact 
of my having found the nest of that bird in the same piece of wood the 
previous year (1873), I am led to believe it was that of the Black-billed 
species {Coccyzus erythrophthalmus). The nest was deserted and apparently 
had been for some time, as all the eggs were addled, nor could I see that 
incubation had begun ; certainly it had not in the Cuckoo’s egg. I can 
find no mention in print, nor have I ever before heard, of such a case. — 
Egbert Bagg, Jr., Utica, N. Y. 
[The laying of our American Cuckoos in the nests of other birds is 
doubtless not so rare an occurrence as has been supposed. Two instances 
have been observed recently in this immediate vicinity, and I have heard 
of others. Mr. A. M. Frazar, of Watertown, Mass., informs me of one in- 
stance where the Yellow-billed Cuckoo {Coccyzus america^ius) deposited 
an egg in a Robin’s nest, and another case of the laying of the same 
species in the nest of a Wood Thrush. In the March number of the 
Oologist” (Vol. Ill, p. 3, published at Utica, N. Y.) an anonymous writer 
records (since Mr. Bagg’s note was received for publication) the finding of 
two eggs of .the “ Cuckoo ” (species not given) in the nest of a ‘‘ Redbird ” 
at Gambier, Ohio. — J. A. Allen.] 
Occurrence for the first Time in England of the Robin (Turdus 
migratorius). — Mr. J. E. Harting records the first occurrence in England 
of this species in an article in The Field ” (published in London, Eug.), 
of December 23, 1876, and also in the “Zoologist” for January, of which 
paper he is , editor. The bird was taken alive, owing to its exhausted 
state, when reaching land at Dover, during April or May. 
Mr. Harting is a well-known authority on stragglers, having published 
in 1872 a Handbook of British Birds, in which was recorded 212 speci- 
mens of American birds, belonging to 42 different species. Since that 
time some of these have been discredited, and others added, until at the 
present time the list embraces 220 instances of the occasional appearance 
in Great Britain of North American birds. Of the species referred to in 
this list, there are five birds of prey, fourteen Passer es and Picarice, one 
Columba, fourteen Grallatores, and eight Natatores. The prevailing winds 
of the Atlantic being westerly probably accounts for the greater abun- 
dance of American stragglers in Europe than the contrary. — H. B. Bailey, 
Orange, N. J. 
