j Capture of the Red-bellied Woodpecker ( Centurus carol inus) in 
j Eastern Massachusetts. — A female of this species was taken- by Mr. 
! William Adair in a chestnut grove in Newton, November 25, 1880. The 
male was seen and wounded but was not secured. — Gordon Plummer, 
Boston. Mass. Buli>N>Q«0» Q, April* 1881. P« /£0 
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A Second Massachusetts Specimen of the Red-bellied Wood- 
pecker ( Centurus carolinus ). — At the establishment of Pertia W. 
Aldrich, the well-known taxidermist, I have lately seen a freshlv-made 
skin of a Red-bellied Woodpecker which Mr. Aldrich tells me was shot at 
Cohasset, May 28, 1881, by a young son of Matthew Luce, Esq., of Boston. 
The bird is an adult male in fine plumage. It is the second known Massa- 
chusetts specimen, the first having been recorded in the last (April) 
number of the Bulletin, by Gordon Plummer, Esq.— William Brewster, 
Cambridge , Mass. 
[Although the two specimens alluded to above are doubtless the only ones 
thus far known to have been actually taken in Massachusetts it may be 
well to call attention to two earlier records. In my “ Catalogue of Birds 
found at Springfield, Mass.,” etc., published in 1864 (Proc. Essex Institute, 
Vol. IV, pp. 48-98), I gave the species as a “Summer Visitant. Accidental” ; 
and add: “ Saw one May 13th 1863” ( 1 . c., p. 53). I also cite Peabody 
(Rep. on the Birds of Mass.) as stating that Professor Emmons had found 
it breeding in Western Massachusetts. Whatever may be the weight of 
the testimony last cited, I will take this opportunity of stating more fully 
the instance I give on my own authority. The specimen was shot and 
fell, but just as it reached the ground scaled off a few feet into a pile of 
brush thickly overgrown with bushes, and a prolonged search, repeatedly 
renewed on subsequent days, failed to discover the bird. Nothing in my' 
ornithological experience ever made so deep an impression on my memory, 
or gave me keener dissappointment, for I knew what a prize I had lost. 
The species was then well known to me, and was as distinctly recognized 
as it could have been had I had it actually in hand. A specimen of this 
species has since been taken by Mr. E. I. Shores within five miles (at 
Suffield, Conn, (see Merriam’s Birds of Conn., p. 65), of the locality 
where my example was shot. — J. A. Allen.] 
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