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5. Mimus polyglottus. Mocking-Bird. — A young male, evidently 
a wild bird, was shot by Mr. Maekay at Nantucket, October 8, 1878. 
Besides the above I have to record : — 
6. Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Lawr. — A female was shot at 
Easthain by Mr. Frank L. Tileston, November 2, 1878. Without presum- 
ing to decide whether this is entitled to rank even as a variety, the fact 
remains that this bird was in a very different form from the common 
M. griseus and was shot at a period much later than the latter bird has 
been known to appear. 
7. Limosa hudsonica. Hudsonian Godwit. — A female was shot 
by Mr. Tileston on Cape Cod, November 2, 1878 ; also late in the season 
for this species. — T. M. Brewer, Boston, Mass. 
The Frigate Pelican in Nova Scotia. — The occurrence of 
Tachypetes aquila so far from its usual range is a note of much interest, 
the only instance previously recorded of its capture as far north even as 
New England being a specimen taken at Faulkner’s Island, Long Island, in 
1859.* 
Mr. Andrew Downs of Halifax, N. S., to whom I am indebted for the 
following information concerning its capture, writes me: “The Frigate 
Bird which I sent to Boston was shot October 16, 1876, outside of Halifax 
Harbor. It is the only one which has ever been seen here, and was driven 
here by a strong southwest gale. It was very warm weather for the time 
of year.” The specimen, which is a fine adult male, is in the possession 
of Mr. Charles J. Maynard of Newtonville, Mass. — Ruthven Deane, 
Cambridge , Mass. 
Fulmarus glacialis on the Massachusetts Coast. — In my 
Catalogue of the Birds of New England this bird is spoken of as gener- 
ally supposed to be found off our coast, but as unsupported by fact. This 
can be said of it no longer. On Monday, November 4, 1878, I saw a liv- 
ing specimen of it in the yard of Mr. George O. Welch of Lynn, to whom 
it had been sent to be mounted for the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. 
James W. Milner writes me that this specimen of the Fulmar Petrel was 
taken by Captain William Sweet of the fishing-schooner Grace C. Had- 
ley, “ on a cod-hook, on the eastern part of George’s Bank, which is a very 
little south of east of Boston, and certainly belongs to the New England 
coast. It was taken October 28, 1878.” — T. M. Brewer, 233 Beacon 
Street , Boston, Mass. 
* American Naturalist, Vol. IX, p. 470, August, 1875. 
