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dental. One instance (Chatham, Nov. 18, 1877, Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, Jan., 1878, 45). Several recent instances of its capture near Providence, R. I. (Purdie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, II, Jan., 1877, 20; Merriam, Rev. Bds. Conn., 1877, 8.) *14. Parus atricapillus Linn.

15. Parus hudsonicus Forst.

CHICKADEE.
HUDSONIAN

Common resident. CHICKADEE.

Acci

dental. (Concord, Oct. 30, 1870, Brewster, Am. Nat., VI, 306. Also given as a bird of the state by Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 402.) *16. Sitta carolinensis Gmel. WHITE-BELLIED NUTHATCH. Rather common resident.

17. Sitta canadensis Linn.

RED-BELLIED NUTHATCH.

Winter

visitant. Not generally common. The doubtfully supposed instance of its breeding on the ground in Roxbury (May, 1877, recorded in Am. Nat., XI, 565), proves to have been a mistake, the eggs taken proving

not to be those of that specics.

*18. Certhia familiaris Linn. BROWN CREEPER. Resident, but most numerous in spring, autumn and winter.

*19. Troglodytes aëdon Vieill. summer resident.

HOUSE WREN. Rather common

20. Troglodytes parvulus var. hyemalis Coues.

WINTER

WREN. Winter visitant; not common. Perhaps breeds in the higher mountainous portions of Berkshire County. (T. Martin Trippe gives It as breeding in the Catskills, Am. Nat., VI, 47.) *21. Cistothorus stellaris Cab.

Locally common.

SHORT-BILLED MARSH WREN.

*22. Cistothorus palustris Baird. LONG-billed Marsh Wren. Common, like the preceding, at favorable localities.

The Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus Bon.) has been reported as occurring in Roxbury, in the summer of 1876, but no specimens were taken (Minot, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, I, Sept., 1876, 76; Land Birds and Game Birds of New England, 1877, 74).

23. Eremophila alpestris Boie. SHORE LARK; HORNED LARK. Winter visitant, chiefly along the coast, where it is generally common and sometimes abundant.

24. Anthus ludovicianus Licht. TITLARK; BROWN LARK. Spring and autumn visitant, in small flocks.

*25. Mniotilta varia Vieill.

mon summer resident.

*26. Parula americana Bon. Rather common summer resident.

BLACK-AND-WHITE CREEPER. Com

BLUE-YELLOW-BACKED WARBLER.

*27. Helminthophaga ruficapilla Baird. NASHVILLE WARBLER. Common summer visitant.

28. Helminthophaga celata Baird. ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. Rare or accidental. Only three instances of its capture thus

I. Species of Authentic Occurrence within the State.

[NOTE. The asterisk (*) at the left of a name indicates that the species is known to breed within the state. For the sake of brevity, the annotations are restricted

to simply indication of season of occurrence and relative abundance, except in the case of the extremely rare or accidental visitors, respecting which the record of captures is brought down from 1864 to January, 1878. Only the original notice, however, is cited. My former catalogue gives the record of rare captures down to 1864 (see also Coues's "Catalogue of the Birds of New England" in Proceedings Essex Institute, vi, pp. 253-314, for the early record), so that my former paper, and the present, form together a full record in this respect.]

*1. Turdus migratorius Linn. ROBIN. Abundant summer resident; a few remain during winter at favorable localities.

2. Turdus nævius Gmel. VARIED THRUSH. Accidental. As yet

the only authentic record of its occurrence is its capture at Ipswich, in December, 1864 (Allen, Proc. Essex Inst., V. 1868, 312; Amer. Nat., III, Jan., 1870, 572; see further, on its supposed earlier occurrence in Massachusetts, Proc. Essex Inst., IV, 1864, 82).

*3. Turdus mustelinus Gmel. WOOD THRUSH. Common summer resident except in the higher portions of Berkshire County.

*4. Turdus pallasi Cab. HERMIT THRUSH. Spring and fall migrant, except in the mountainous portions of the state west of the Connecticut valley, where it is a common summer resident; occasionally breeds in other parts of the state.

5. Turdus swainsoní Cab. (= T. swainsoni et alicia auct.)

OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH.

Common spring and autumn migrant; probably breeds in portions of Berkshire County.

*6. Turdus fuscescens Steph. VEERY; WILSON'S THRUSH. Common summer resident.

*7. Mimus polyglottus Boie. MOCKING BIRD. Rare summer visitant, occasionally breeding, particularly in the Connecticut Valley. CAT BIRD. Abundant summer

*8. Mimus carolinensis Gray. resident.

*9. Harporhynchus rufus Cab. BROWN THRUSH. Abundant summer resident.

*10. Sialia sialis Hald. BLUEBIRD. Abundant summer resident. 11. Regulus calendula Licht. RUBY-CROwned KingleT. Abundant spring and summer visitant.

12. Regulus satrapa Licht. GOLDEN-CRESTED KINGLET. Chiefly a winter visitant, occurring in variable abundance in different years, but usually more or less common. Perhaps breeds in portions of Berkshire County, as it has been reported to do in the Catskills (Trippe, Am. Nat., VI, 47).

13. Polioptila cærulea Scl. BLUE-GRAY GNAT-CATCHER. Acci

chusetts were included, embracing nearly all the additions

made between the years 1870 and 1875, but generally without giving the date of capture or place of record. Of this list of three hundred and thirty-six species twelve are either explicitly or inferentially given as not found in

Massachusetts; fourteen others are regarded in the following list as either purely nominal or as merely varietal forms of other species also occurring here; one is an introduced species, and another ("Thaumatias linnæi") I regard as improperly included; leaving three hundred and eight that may be regarded as birds of Massachusetts, though not of course always necessarily so implied by the phraseology of the list.

The following tabulated summary shows at a glance the number of species attributed to the state at different

times since 1833, together with the number authentically recorded, the number still unconfirmed, and the number

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Embracing, among others, varietal forms here regarded as improperly ac .corded full specific rank.

Inferentially, through additions to Dr. Emmons's list.

Inferentially determined.

Given as probably occurring, but not as yet fully confirmed.

During the winter of 1869-70 I published additional "Notes on some of the Rarer Birds of Massachusetts (Amer. Nat., III, Dec., 1869, Jan. and Feb., 1870), in which ninety-two species were formally referred to, and eight for the first time recorded as captured or observed within the state (exclusive of one included by error of identification, and four others perhaps not properly to be regarded as indigenous or naturally occurring species). Several species given in my previous list were now withdrawn. The number of species then stood nominally at three hundred and five, but in reality (or as judged by the standard I have adopted for my present list) two hundred and ninety-five.

Later in the same year appeared Mr. Maynard's excellent "Catalogue of the Birds of Eastern Massachusetts' (Naturalist's Guide, 1870, pp. 81-167), comprising nominally two hundred and ninety-nine species, but adding no new ones. Applying the same rules of exclusion that have been used in respect to the other before-mentioned lists the number becomes reduced to about two hundred and eighty-nine. Five or six were withdrawn as birds of Eastern Massachusetts, but otherwise the list includes all of the at that time authenticated indigenous birds of the state except four, known at that date as occurring only in the western part of the state.

Since 1870 about twenty-five species have been added, mainly through the investigations of Messrs. Brewster, Purdie, Deane, and Maynard, including three first described from birds taken within the state. No new separate enumeration of the birds of Massachusetts has, however, been since made, but in 1875 Dr. T. M. Brewer published a new "Catalogue of the Birds of New England" (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII, July, 1875, pp. 436-454), in which, of course, those of Massa

than were correctly included in Mr. Putnam's list eight years earlier.

Almost simultaneously with the appearance of Mr. Samuel's list appeared my "Catalogue of the Birds found at Springfield, Mass., with Notes on their Migrations, Habits, etc.; together with a List of those Birds found in the State not yet observed at Springfield" (Proc. Essex Institute, IV, July, 1864, pp. 48-98). In this paper I gave one hundred and ninety-five as found at Springfield, and two hundred and ninety-seven' as inhabitants of the state. The Springfield list included one species (Empidonax acadicus) given erroneously, but which has since been taken within the area covered by the list, and some others have since been added. In the supplemental list three species were given that I now regard as synonyms, and some eight or ten others were included on the authority of Nuttall, Peabody, Audubon, Cabot, Bryant, and Brewer, of which there is no recent record of their сарture, but which (with perhaps two, or possibly three, exceptions) are very likely to occur. Excluding, however, all these there still remain two hundred and eightytwo thoroughly authenticated as birds of the state. Of fifteen others mentioned as likely to occur, over one-half have since been added.

In 1868 was published a "Catalogue of the Birds of New England," by Dr. Elliott Coues, in which nearly all the species previously attributed to Massachusetts were included. The Great Auk (Alca impennis) was here for the first time recognized as a former inhabitant of Massachusetts, and the Barn Owl (Strix pratincola) and the Varied Thrush (Turdus nævius) were added in the Appendix from notes furnished by the present writer.

2Squartarola helvetica was accidentally omitted from the Springfield list, though given in the classified list at the end of the paper; hence in my "summary" (p. 97)

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