Dec. 15, 1882.] 
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America devoted to general ornithology?” 
Tufted Titmouse. —Had the good for¬ 
tune to capture a fine specimen of the 
Tufted Titmouse, on the 6th inst. What 
I know of this rare bird is as follows : 
1871, A])!'!! 30.—Saw two ; was without 
my gun, it being on Sunday ; was within 
about thirty feet of them. 1881, April 12. 
—Shot one ; no others seen. 1882, April 
6 .—Shot one ; no others seen.—//. A. 
^Likins, J/. I)., Locke^ Mich. 
Cuckoos. —One very singular find of 
mine this season was a nest containing 
a set each of Black-billed and A'ellow- 
billed Cuckoos. It was in a young oak 
sapling in a crotch about nine feet up. 
There were two eggs of each variety, very 
distinct in size and color—no one seeing 
them would question the distinction. In¬ 
cubation had commenced but was about 
equally advanced, showing they were laid 
at about the same time. The old Yellow- 
bill had “ nine points of law” in her favor 
—“ possession.” It was late in the season 
for that species to be breeding, the 24th 
of July. YIentioning this circumstance to 
J. N. Stannis, he remarked that he was 
glad I found it, for he once found one 
similarly situated but had never been able 
to convince anybody of the fact. It was 
not in such situations as I have usuallv 
found the Yellow-bills, but the bird was 
very tame and demonstrative and I 
could not be mistaken in the species. 
Great White Eoret {llerodUie, alha 
eejretta. —One of iny neighbors "procured 
specimen August 11th, nearly two miles 
from the seashore. It was following up a 
mill stream and he shot it from his door 
as it flew past. It was pure white, in 
young plumage, a long-legged, long¬ 
necked, stilty looking bird. The same 
jierson shot one of these birds in 1878, 
tlie 2d of August. These are the only 
birds of the species that I ever saw.— J. 
N. Clark, Old Saj/hrook, (Jt. 
Red-shouldered Hawk. —I captured a 
beautiful siiecimen of a Red-shouldered 
Hawk, a male, in mature plumage, a few 
days ago. It seemed to have adopted the 
range of the creek passing near by for its 
Winter hunting ground as early as Octo¬ 
ber, and he included our immediate vicin¬ 
ity in his daily excursions. Perhaps I 
was unjust by him, but I imputed the 
cause of my diminishing poultry to him, 
but with no positive proof. However that 
might be, I had an earnest desire for his 
skin, and kept my gun sjiecially prepared 
for him. and have returned from many a 
fruitless effort only to wish I could get a 
little nearer. There was a solitary tree on 
the bank where he rested almost every 
day as he took his excursion iqi the creek, 
and a thought struck me, if I only had a 
rabbit—^well, I got one, and the day after 
Thanksgiving I tied it to a spring and set 
a steel trap on a large brancli under it— 
but I saw the hawk rest no more on that 
tree. He seemed to entertain suspicions 
that something was wrong till the 17th of 
January, looking that way, I had the satis¬ 
faction of seeing my coveted bird stand¬ 
ing there with a foot securely fastened in 
the trap. The Winter has been pretty se¬ 
vere on the birds and they have almost 
entirely deserted us. but I had the satis¬ 
faction of securing one thing new to mj' 
collection a few days ago—a Purple iSand- 
pqDer captured on the jetty off the mouth 
of the river.— -J. N. Clark, Old Sayhrook, 
Conn. 
Olive-sided Flycatcher. 
A bird by no means common in this lo¬ 
cality, arriving from the lOth to 20 th of 
Ylay. Having observed a jiair of them fre- 
(pienting a large and isolated orchard, I 
was confident of finding their nest; but 
careful and repeated search failed to reveal 
it. Leaving the orchard June 16th, 1882, 
and entering a piece of young growth 
among which were a few large hemlock 
trees, I suddenly noticed one of them 
(probably the male) flying toward me. It 
was very much annoyed by my jn-esence 
