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ORNITHOLOGIST 
[Vol. G-No. G. 
ORNITHOLOGIST ailfl OOLOGIST. 
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY 
OF JHKDS, THEll! NESTS AND EIJGS. 
JOS. M. WADE, - - . . EilUor 
S. L. WILLARD. - - - Ana’t Editor 
With the eo.oi)eration of nlile Oniitliologieal 
Writers and Collectors. 
Subscription.— O.oo per annum. Foreign 
subscription !>i 25 including postage. Specimen 
copies I o cents each 
JOS. M. WADE. 
Norwich, Conn. 
Entered at tlie Norwich P. O. as sccoinl.class matter. 
EDITORIAL. 
Rare Finds. 
During the present season (1881) quite 
a number of rare sets have been found and 
added to various collections throughout 
the country. Among them are a set of four 
of the Saw-whet Owl (Nyctale acadica) 
by Mr. W. Perham, Tjmgsboro, Mass., 
(see Nuttall liidletin, page 143) One set 
of live of the same by Capt. Chas. Bendire, 
at Camp Harney, Oregon. Also, several 
sets of Scoj)s asio which if not Kinnecot- 
ti or MaxioellicB. may prove a new variety. 
Mr. Fred. T. Jencks was fortunate in se¬ 
curing several sets of Kentucky, Worm¬ 
eating Prothonotary, and other rare 
Warblers. He also found three nests of 
the Black-crested Titm uise, but they were 
in trees too large for any ordinary climber. 
He not only saw them building their nests, 
but watched them almost daily until the 
young were able to lly. This was in the 
heavy timber of Southeni Indiana. Mr. 
Jiunes C. Merrill, M. D., stationed at F^^rt 
Custer, Montana, secured some very rare 
sets although working to great disadvan¬ 
tage in various ways, preventing his reach¬ 
ing the desired breetbng grounds until late 
in the season. We connot do better than 
make an extract from Mr. Merrill’s letter: 
‘T found a superlj set of eight fresh Re<ju- 
lu» cahnduki [Ruby-Crowned Kingiet], 
one set of tive Dendroeca tiudiiboni [Audu¬ 
bon’s Warbler], one addled egg in a nest- 
full of young of Parus tnontmms [Moun¬ 
tain Chickadee], egg pure white, vide Ben- I 
dii’e, Belding and Brewer; Sphyrapi- ^ 
cits michalis, one set of five ; Pimco, prob- 1 
ably cauiectuiKs, five eggs ; female sent to J 
Mr. Ridgway for identification. Also, four \ 
sets Pipilo arcticus [Northern Towhee] 
and Canace richardsoni [Richardson’s I 
Grouse]. Eggs of Sphyrapicus and h 
Junco are, I think undescribed, though I | 
have not yet had time to look this up. I 
Found sever-al pairs of Harlequin Ducks fl 
breeding, but could not find their nests, 
which were doubtless in hollow trees. All !.( 
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were found almost exactly on the Montana- ji 
Wyoming boundary line. All the above |j 
were breeding abundantly, and if next year 
I can have five or six weeks in the same lo- ^ i 
cality I know that I can do splencbdly, as 14 
I am now familiar with the ground. I re- ■ 
gret exceedingly my poverty in duplicates, 1 
as I hoped, and expected to be able, to I 
make many exchanges.” 
Birds of the Hudson Highlands. 
The six parts of Dr. Mearns’s “List of ■ 
the Birds of the Hudson Highlands,” that : 
have been published in the “Bulletin of the > J 
Essex Institute,” at intervals from 1878 to ! 
the present time, carry the subject to the j 
Quail {Ortyx viryinianus) and will, when i| 
completed, be one of the best of the many ( 
local lists that have appeared from time to ( 
time in different parts of the country. In- . 
teresting field notes are given and much ] 
scientific value is foun.l in the compara- * 
tive tables of measurements of iimre than 1 
nineteen hundred (1900) sjiecimens that 1 
the author has collected in the Highlands. ' 
Addition to the R. I. Fauna. j 
Messrs. Soutliwick & Jencks of Previ- , 
dence, R. I., received July 27, to be mount- ! 
ed, a lino specimen of Caspian Teni (fe¬ 
male) which measured twenty-one inches 
in lengto and fifty inches in alar extent. 1 
It wis shot bv .Mr. J. B. Dunn at Wester- 1 
ly, R. I. 
