BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Nuttall Ornithological Club: 
% iHurnal of ^rnit^olojgg. 
Vol. I. - JULY, 1876. - No. 2. 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
The Nuttall Ornithological Club . . 29 
Regarding Buteo vulgaris in North 
America. By Robei't Ridgway .... 32 
Additions to the Avi-fauna of Illinois, 
WITH Notes on other Species of Il- 
linois Birds. By E. W. Nelson .... 39 
Notes on the Breeding Habits of 
Clarke’s Crow {Picicorms columbianus), 
WITH AN Account of its Nest and Eggs. 
By Captain Charles Bendire^ U. S. A. . . 44 
Description of a new Duck from Wash- 
ington Island. By Thomas H. Streets, 
M.D., Passed Assistant Surgeon, U. S. N. 46 
Page 
Recent Literature 47 
Lawrence’s Descriptions of New Species of 
American Birds. — Kidder’s Ornithology 
Df Kerguelen Island. — Kidder and Coues’s 
“ A Study of Chionis minor," etc. — 
Marsh’s Extinct Birds with Teeth. — 
Gentry’s “Life-Histories of the Birds of 
Eastern Pennsylvania.” 
General Notes 60 
Breeding of the Canada Goose in Trees. — 
Tarsal Envelope in Campylorhynchus and 
allied Genera. — Occurrence of the Cur- 
lew Sandpiper in Massachusetts. — The 
Ipswich Sparrow in New Brunswick. — 
Passerculus princeps and Parus hudsonicus 
in Connecticut. — Anser rossii in Oregon. 
Caiwiiritiflr, : 
PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB. 
University Press, Cambridge : Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. 
