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for them at the proper times and places. The habits, song, nest, 

 and eggs of this form are not known to differ from those of the 

 Yellow Palm Warbler. 



Stelgidopteryx serripennis. Rough-winged Swallow. 



The Rough-winged Swallow is known to breed regularly in south- 

 western Connecticut, but only in small numbers and very locally 

 (cf. Coues and Stearns, N. E. Bird Life, 1881, Vol. I, pp. 187-189). 

 Its casual occurrence in Massachusetts is highly probable, but not as 

 yet established. 



PiRAXGA LUDOYiciAXA. Western Tanager. 



There are but two records of the occurrence of this "Western spe- 

 cies in New England ; one of an adult male caught in a cage, at 

 Lynn, Massachusetts, January 20, 1878, after a severe storm 

 (Brewer, Forest and Stream, Vol. XI, 1878, p. 95) ; the other of a 

 young male shot by Mr. H. W. Flint at New Haven, Connecticut, 

 December 15, 1892 (Flint, Auk, Vol. X, 1893, p. 86). 



Mr. Manly Hardy writes me that a male Western Tanager was 

 killed near Bangor, Maine, about October 1, 1889, by a boy, who, 

 after keeping it for several days, took it to Mr. Crosby, the well- 

 known taxidermist of Bangor. It was then too far advanced in 

 decomposition to be preserved, but Mr. Crosby, before throwing it 

 away, compared it carefully with a Western skin, and found that the 

 two agreed j^erfectly. No published mention of this specmien has 

 been hitherto made. 



Laxius ludoviciaxus excubitorides. White-rumped Shrike. 



In my foot-note on page 170, Massachusetts should have been in- 

 cluded in the breeding range of this bird, for there is a record of 

 the finding of three nests (two of wliich contained eggs) at Williams- 

 town, in 1883 and 1886 (Tenney, Am. Nat., Vol. XXI, January, 

 1887, p. 90). 



Coccothraustes vespertixus. Evening Grosbeak. 



An incursion of these Grosbeaks early in 1890 is perhaps the 

 most remarkable and interesting episode in the annals of New Eng- 

 land ornithology, if, indeed, it be not wholly without parallel ; for 

 what other instance can be named of the nearly simultaneous appear- 

 ance, over the greater part of our territory, of a large and strik- 

 ingly colored bird not known to have hitherto crossed our boundaries ? 



