44 G. H. Merriam — Birds of Connecticut. 



Mr. Boardman states that it was " common in the spring of 1861" in 

 the vicinity of CaLais, Maine !* 



105. Cyanospiza Cyanea (Linne) Baird. indigo Bird. 



A common summer resident, breeding, like the last, in thick patches 

 of bushes. Arrives before the middle of May (May 14, 18*74, J. H. 

 Sage; 14, 1876, Osborne; 14, 1877, C. H. M. ; also May 9, 1875, 

 Sage), remaining into September. 



106. Cardinalis VirginianUS (Brisson) Bonaparte. Cardinal Grosbeak. 



A rare and accidental summer visitor from the South. Mr. Thomas 

 Bostwick of this city found one lying dead during the summer of 

 1874, and Mr. Geo. Bird Grinnell, who examined the specimen, tells 

 me that its bill and feet, as well as the plumage, proved it to be a 

 wild bird. Numerous specimens have, from time to time, been taken 

 or seen along the Connecticut Valley, and it is highly improbable 

 that they were all escaped cage birds. My friend, Mr. E. P. Bicknell, 

 has taken a nimiber of individuals about Riverdale, Westchester Co., 

 N. Y., and it is certain that most, if not all, of them were wild. 



Regarding the age to which our small birds attain, it is worthy of 

 mention that my grandmother kept a Cardinal Bird caged for twenty- 

 one years — it was noisy to the last. Its colors began to fade several 

 years before its death, till finally it looked very like a worn female. 



It winters as far north as southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania 

 (Turnbull).t 



107. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linne) Vieillot. Chewink; Towhee 



Bunting. 



A common siunmcr resident, breeding on the ground, in under- 

 growth, and in the woods. Ai-rives early in May (May 1, 1876, 

 Osborne ; 4, 1877), remaining till November (Oct. 28, Nov. 8.) Mr. 

 J. H. Sage has a fine male in his cabinet which was shot near Port- 

 land, Conn., Jan. 22d, 1876 ! A characteristic nest, found May 24th, 

 1874, "under a Vii-ginia Juniper," by the Stadtmiiller Brothers, 

 " was composed externally of cedar bark, lined with grass and horse 

 hair."t 



* Proceed. Bost. Soc. Nat Hist., vol. ix, p. 127. 1862. 



f The Birds of p]astern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. By Wm. P. Turnbull, LL.D. 

 p. 24. 1869. 



jj. MS. notes of the Stadtmiiller Brothers. 



