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lage streets up to about 3,000 feet in the mixed forests on the 

 White Mountains. It is also common to the north of these 

 mountains, as at L,ake Umbagog. At Intervale, I have on one 

 or two occasions seen single birds on the wire fences, which 

 cross the Saco meadows, feeding on crickets which they ob- 

 tained on the edge of a farm-road, and carried to the fence to 

 eat. Most of them leave the latitude of the White Mountains 

 by the middle of September, though Dr. Walter Faxon informs 

 me that he saw three on September 30, 1895, at Warren. 

 Dates : May 8 to September 30. 



200. Vireo philadelphicus (Cass.). Philadelphia 



VlREO. 



A rare spring and fall migrant, and in the northern part of 

 the state a rather rare summer resident. To Mr. William 

 Brewster, we are chiefly indebted for our knowledge of this spe- 

 cies as a summer bird of New Hampshire. About L,ake Umba- 

 gog, this gentleman and Mr. Ruthven Deane ('76) secured in 

 all, three specimens, on the 3d and 4th of June, 1872. Near the 

 same spot, Mr. Brewster ('80) secured on August 29, 1874, 

 three more specimens and a fourth on August 31st, these being 

 all ' ' young birds in freshly assumed but quite perfect fall 

 dress." On May 29, 1876, another was taken at Umbagog, 

 and two more on May 31st, and three years later, on May 27, 

 1879, a mated pair was shot. From Umbagog, Mr. Brewster 

 ('80) states that he traced them westward to Dixville Notch in 

 northwestern New Hampshire, where "they were noted in 

 greater numbers than elsewhere, and on June 10th several pairs 

 were found in the open birch groves about the ' Dix House,' 

 just beyond the Notch." He further notes that although these 

 birds arrive at Umbagog during the last of May or first week of 

 June, they remain silent until the breeding season has fairly be- 

 gun, when they are quite as indefatigable singers as the Red- 

 eyed Vireos, and are then found generally distributed through- 

 out the less heavily wooded areas. Mr. Ralph Hoffmann has 

 also noted the bird in the Dixville Notch in the breeding sea- 

 son, in 1903. The only White Mountain record of this bird in 



