BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Nuttall Ornithological Club: 
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Vol. I. - SEPTEMBER^ 187G. - No. 3. 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
Decrease of Birds in Massachusetts. 
By J. A. Allen 53 
On the Number of Primaries in Oscines. 
By-i)r. Elliott Coues^ U. S. A 60 
The Yellow-bellied Woodpecker (Sphy- 
rapicus varius). By Willimn Brevo&ter . . 63 
Recent Literature 70 
Ornithology of the Wheeler Expeditions. — 
Field and Forest. — The Portland Tern. 
Page 
— The Birds of Ritchie County, West 
Virginia. — Brewer’s Birds of New Eng- 
land. 
General Notes’ . 74 
The Philadelphia Vireo in New England. — 
Geographical Variation in the Number 
and Size of the Eggs of Birds. — The Nest 
and Eggs of Traill’s Flycatcher, as ob- 
served i 1 Maine. — Singular Food of the 
Least Bittern. — Intelligence of a Crow. 
— The Great Carolina Wren in Massachu- 
setts. 
Cffttibrilfse, : 
POBT. ISHED BY THE CLUB. 
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