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At Intervale, a pair is usually found nesting each season, and 

 the birds, after the breeding period is over, remain about the 

 village, often roaming over the lowlands a mile or more from the 

 nesting site. I have seen what were apparently these summer- 

 ing birds, up to the first of September, at Intervale. 

 Dates : May 6 to September 1. 



100. Scolecophagus carolinus (Mull.). Rusty Black- 

 bird. 



A common spring and fall migrant and in the northern part of 

 the state, a rare summer resident. Mr. C. J. Maynard ('72) re- 

 cords seeing a few at L,ake Umbagog in June, and Samuels 

 ('67, p. 551) states that he found several in June, 1864, in the 

 valley of the Megalloway River in Maine. Doubtless a few 

 breed regularly in the swamps of this wooded region. In the 

 White Mountain valleys they appear in small flocks about the 

 first week in September, and Mr. Bradford Torrey has observed 

 them in Franconia up to October 2. 



Dates: March 8 to April 19; summer (northern N. H.); September 9 

 to October 2. 



101. Quiscalus quiscula seneus (Ridgw.) Bronzed 

 Grackle. 



An uncommon summer resident of local distribution, mainly 

 within the Transition zone. Colonies are not infrequently found 

 in the southern part of the state, along the coast and in the 

 Merrimack and Connecticut valleys. At Manchester, accord- 

 ing to Mr. F. W. Batchelder (: 00, p. 19) it is a " rare transient 

 visitant." Mr. C. F. Goodhue has found a small breeding col- 

 ony near Webster, and Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98) considers it a 

 common summer resident in Belknap and Merrimack counties. 

 Dr. Walter Faxon has also observed a flock at Plymouth, May 

 26, 1895. Mr. G. H. Thayer assures me of its presence at 

 Keene and Marlboro. In the Connecticut valley at Charles- 

 town, Mr. W. M. Buswell finds it uncommon, and I have seen 

 a few individuals at Walpole in early July, 1894. In the upper 

 Connecticut valley, Mr. F. B. Spaulding writes me that at Lan- 

 caster a dozen or more pairs nest in some evergreens at the head 

 of the main street, and that there were formerly more, but their 



