120 THE NATURALIST'S GUIDE. 



heard it sing with a low warbling note which was very 

 pleasant. 



90. Melospiza Lincoln!!, BAIRD. Lincoln's Sparrow. 

 Very rare. Mr. S. Jillson has taken it at Hudson on one 

 or two occasions in spring. 



91. Passerella iliaca, SWAIN. Fox-colored Sparrow. 

 Common during the migrations. Have taken it in spring 

 from March 14th to April 13th. While with us at this 

 season it has a most pleasing song. Passes us in the 

 autumn in October. 



92. Passer domestica, LEACH. - - European House 

 Sparrow. Introduced, but common already in localities ; 

 will soon, without doubt, be generally distributed. 



93. Euspiza Americana, BON. - -Black-throated Bunt- 

 ing. Very rare summer visitor, or straggler, from the 

 south. My young friend, John Thaxter, shot a specimen 

 June 26, 1867; it was a female, and, as I should judge, 

 from the peculiar appearance of the ovaries and oviduct, 

 had laid her eggs ; while the bare and swollen appearance 

 of her breast seemed to indicate that she w T as incubating. 

 Mr. Samuels speaks of two instances of its capture.* 



94. G-uiraca Ludoviciana, SWATN. Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak. Common summer resident. Breeds, nesting in 

 trees and bushes. Arrives from May 8th to 22d ; leaves- 

 early in September. Frequents open woods. 



The Blue Grosbeak (G-uiraca coerulea, Swain.) perhaps 

 rarely occurs ; it has been taken in Calais, Maine, " where 

 it is very uncertain, but was common in the spring of 



1861." f 



95. Cyanospiza cyanea, BAIRD. - - Indigo-Bird. 

 Common summer resident. Breeds, nesting in low bushes. 

 Arrives from May 10th to 22d ; in autumn found in flocks 



* " Ornithology and Oology of New England," p. 328. 



f G. A. Boardman, "Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory," IX. p. 127 ; J. A. Allen, " Proceedings of the Essex Institute," IV. 

 1864, pp. 84, 85. 



