162 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



FRINGILLIDAE. 



Mass. — Common summer resident and near the coast a rare 

 winter resident. (Mar. 29) April 1-No v. 13; (winter). Eggs, May 

 8-June 12. 



R. I. — Common summer and rare winter resident. April— Oct. 

 23; (winter). Eggs, May 19- June 11. 



Conn. — Common summer and rare winter resident. (Late 

 Mar.) April G-Dec. 2 (winter, Hartford, New Haven). Eggs, June 

 22. 



301. Junco hyemalis (Linne) Sclater. 



Slate-colored Junco; Black snowbird; Blue snowbird; Junco; 

 Snowbird; White -bill. 



Chapman, Handb. birds east. No. Amer., 1895, p. 304; Bird- 

 life, 189S, pi. 48. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 9, figs. 14, 15. 



Fringilla hyemalis Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 183. 

 "America." 



Thickets, weedy and brushgrown fields; nests on the ground, 

 rarely in bushes. 



Me., N. H. — Common migrant and mainly in northern part, 

 a common summer resident; rare winter resident in southern part 

 Eggs, May 7- June 29; July 19 (2d brood) . 



Vt. — Common migrant, less common summer and winter resi- 

 dent. 



Mass. — Common migrant, less common winter resident; un- 

 common summer resident in western highlands (Mts. Holyoke, 

 Nonotuck, Tom, Wachusett, Berkshires), sporadic in east (? Box- 

 ford, Medford, Wellfleet). Mar. 8-May 21; summer; Sept. 3- 

 Nov. 30; winter. Eggs, -(Aug. 6). 



R. I. — Common migrant and winter resident. Oct. 2-April 4 

 (May 19). 



Conn. — Common migrant and winter resident; rare local 

 summer resident (Bear Mt., Salisbury, 2354 ft.). Oct. 8-May 3 

 (summer). 



