138 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



ICTERIDAE. 



Vt. — Uncommon summer resident ; very rare in winter. March 

 23-(Dec. 30). 



Mass. — Common migrant and less common summer resident; 

 occasional in winter. (Mar. 1) Mar. 11-Nov. 21; winter. Eggs, 

 May 15- June 15 (July 1). 



R. I. — Common migrant and summer resident; rare in winter. 

 Mar. 14-Xov. 3 (Jan. 19). Eggs, May 16-June 2. 



Conn. — Common migrant and summer resident; rare winter 

 resident. Mar.-Xov. 4; winter. Eggs, May 9-June 14. 



260. Xanthocephalus nanthocephalus (Bonaparte) Jordan. 

 Yellow-headed blackbird. 



Icterus xanthocephalus Bonap., Journ. acad. nat. sci. 'Phila., 

 1826, vol. 5, p. 223. Founded on Say: "Engineer Canton- 

 ment," Iowa. 



Icterus icterocephalus (Linne). Bonap., Amer. ornith., 1825, 

 vol. 1, p. 27, pi. 3, figs. 1, 2. Egg, Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 6, 

 fig. 10-12. 



Open prairies, marshes, and sloughs; nests among reeds. 



Me. — Accidental visitor: Spruce Head, Metnic Id., Aug. 17, 

 1882. 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Eastham, two, Sept. 10, 1877; 

 Monomoy Id., Sept. 8, 1897; ^Yatertown, Oct. 15, 1869. 



Conn. — Accidental visitor: Hartford, late July, 1884; Xew 

 Haven, June, 1878; Stamford, July, 1888. 



261. Agelaius phoeniceus (Linne) Vieillot. 



Red-winged blackbird; Fire-wing; Marsh blackbird; Quonk- 

 a-ree; Redwing; Swamp blackbird. 



Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, vol. 4, p. 31, pi. 216. Egg, 

 Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 6, fig. 13-15. 



Oriolus phoeniceus Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 161. 

 "in America septentrionali." 



