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Chamberlain’s New Brunswick Notes. 
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the doctors disagreed, the proceedings to be published in the 
Nuttall Bulletin and the congressmen to bind themselves to 
abide by the decision of the majority. The plan seemed to him 
perfectly feasible, and probably the only way to secure the greatly 
desired uniformity of nomenclature. Not forgetting to inquire 
politely respecting our “Ornithological Bibliography,” the prog- 
ress of which, he understood, had been arrested by the War 
Department at Washington, and begging to be remembered to all 
absent Nuttallians, Surnia bowed gravely and withdrew. 
Among all our callers there was not one who did not ask par- 
ticularly after our beloved and respected Editor-in-chief, expres- 
sing the warmest sympathy with him in his long illness, and their 
sincere hopes for his speedy and perfect restoration to health. 
NEW BRUNSWICK NOTES. 
BY M. CHAMBERLAIN. 
Among other interesting ornithological occurrences with which 
the year 1882 favored observers in the vicinity of St. John was 
the presence of some six pairs of Pine Grosbeaks ( Pinicola 
eneucleator ) during the entire summer, in a heavy growth of 
mixed woods, covering the crest of a hill overlooking the Kenne- 
becasis River a few miles from the city. 
They were first seen on June 11, when Mr. James W. Banks 
accidentally shot a female in the very act of arranging some dry 
grass on a partially formed nest. It was placed in a small spruce 
some seven feet from the ground and close to the trunk. About 
a handful of this grass, unmixed with other material, had been 
laid firmly upon a limb, not woven together, but appearing more 
like a platform for the main structure to rest upon, than the 
bottom of a nest. When first seen the male and female were to- 
gether gathering grass on a hummock close by, and both seemed 
equally busy. When his mate was killed the male became much 
excited and exhibited deep distress, continuing for some time 
within three or four feet of Mr. Banks, as he sat examining the 
dead bird, and once alighting on a bough close to his head and 
