Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1877. April, 1877. Vol. II No. 2. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. [29]-52, [4] p.: illustrated rifle advertisements; 25 cm. (10 inches). Buff paper wrappers (paper covers) printed in black. Yellow leaf tipped in at front seeking increased "pecuniary support" for the bulletin. Four unpaginated pages following text include advertisements for Wm. Read & Sons, importers of and dealers in fine guns, and Brewster & Knowlton, naturalists and taxidermists, as well as for The American Naturalist and similar publications. The back cover also includes advertisements for Fox's patent breech-loader (also illustrated), manufactured by the American Arms Co., Boston; the Boston shooting suit; and duck decoys by G.W. Simmons & Son, Boston. Contents: Corrections of Nomenclature in the Genus Siurus by Elliott Coues; Notes on the Breeding of the Black Tern (Hydrochelidon lariformis) by T.S. Roberts; Two Undescribed Nests of Carlifornia Birds by William Brewster; A Contribution to the Biography of Wilson's Phalarope by E.W. Nelson; A Defence of His Catalogue of New England Birds by T.M. Brewer. In Very Good+ Condition: front fore-edge and both lower edges chipped; cover is slightly soiled. Pages are clean and tight. A scarce issue of this important 19th-century ornithological bulletin.. Very Good+.