230 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Helminthophaga kiwrencii Herrick, Proc. acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1874, 

 p. 220, pi. 15. " NE.\R Chatham, New Jersey." 



Probably a hybrid form between H. pinus and H. chrysoptera, which it 

 resembles in habits. 



Mass. — One recorded as seen at Dedham, May 27, 1908. 



Conn. — Summer resident: Bridgeport, New Haven, Portland, Stam- 

 ford. May 12-July. Eggs, June 14. 



Helminthophila LErcoBRONCHiALis (Brewster) Ridgway. 

 Brewster's warbler; White -throated warbler. 



Helminthophaga leucobronchialis Brewst., Bull. Nuttall ornith. club, 

 1876, vol. 1, p. 1, pi. 1. " Newtonville, Mass." 



Probably a hybrid form between H. pinus and H. chrysoptera, which it 

 resembles in habits. 



Mass. — Rare summer resident in eastern part (Hudson, Lexington, 

 Newtonville, Jamaica Plain). May 14-summer. Eggs, June 8-18. 



Conn. — Rare summer resident. May 6-Aug. 8. Eggs, June 24. 



"MusciCAPA minuta" Wilson = Wil.sonia microcephala (Ridgway). 

 Small-headed flycatcher. An hypothetical species, described by Wilson 

 and accredited to Massachusetts by Nuttall, Brewer, and Peabody. 



Penthestes atricapillus septextrioxalis (Harris). Long-tailed 

 chickadee. Erroneously recorded from Rhode Island; the specimen 

 proves to be P. a. atricapillus. 



Sylvia atricapilla (Linne) Scopoli. 



European blackcap warbler ; Blackcap. 



Dresser, Birds of Europe, 1871-81, vol 2, p. [421], pi. [66]. Egg, See- 

 bohm, 1896, p. 201, pi. 52, fig. 17-19. • 



Motacilla atricapilla Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 187. "in 



EUROPA." 



Groves and orchards; nests in bushes. 



Mass. — Unsuccessfully introduced at Cambridge prior to 1877. 



TtJRDUS PILARIS Linne. Fieldfare. — A European species, once taken 

 near Stamford, Conn., Mar. 1888, but this probably an escaped cagebird. 



Planesticus merula (Linne). Blackbird. — A male, probably an 

 escape, spent the writer of 1908-09 near the Boston public garden. 



Saxicola oenanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin). Greenland wheatear. — 

 The supposed Maine records in reality refer to birds taken across the line in 

 New Brunswick. 



