442 APPENDIX. 



(northward of the 44th parallel of latitude), or northern New 

 England : Hermit Thrush, Swainson's Thrush, [Northern] Water 

 " Thrush," Golden-crowned " Wren," Brown Creeper, Red-bellied 

 Nuthatch, Winter Wren, " Blue Yellow-back," Mourning Warbler, 

 Nashville Warbler (?), Tennessee Warbler, " Black-throated Blue," 

 " Yellow-rump," Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, 

 " Black-poll," 1 Black and Yellow Warbler, Cape May Warbler, 

 (" Black-cap"), Canada " Flycatcher," Solitary Vireo, Great North- 

 ern Shrike,^ (Common Crossbill), (White-winged Crossbill), White- 

 throated Sparrow, Snow-bird, Rusty Blackbird, (Bronzed Grackle), 

 Canada Jay,^ Traill's Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Hairy 

 Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, "Log -cock," Black- 

 backed Three-toed Woodpecker, Banded Three-toed Woodi^ecker, 

 (Acadian Owl), Golden Eagle, Bald Eagle, Fish Hawk, Goshawk, 

 (Pigeon Hawk), Broad-winged Hawk, Wild Pigeon, and Spruce 

 Partridge ; also several water-birds, etc. t 



A list of the birds hitherto known in New England only as mi- 

 grants or winter visitants (the latter in brackets) : Gray-cheeked 

 Thrush, t Ruby-crowned " Wren " (?), Titlark,^ Connecticut War- 

 bler, Red-poll Warbler, § White-crowned Sparrow, and Fox Sparrow. 

 [Also (Varied Thrush), Hudsonian Titmouse (?),|| (Bohemian Wax- 

 wing), Butcher-bird (?), Pine Grosbeak, Red-poll, Snow Bunting,^ 

 Lapland Longspur, Ipswich Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Shore Lark, If 

 Great Gray Owl, Snowy Owl, Hawk Owl, Richardson's Owl, Gyr- 

 falcon. Rough-legged Hawk, and Black Hawk.] To the above list 

 are to be added the names of many water-birds, shore-birds, etc. 



1 These birds scarcely breed except is now known to breed abundantly on 



in the most northern and eastern por- many of the mountains of northern 



tions. New England. — W. B. 



t The Blue Yellow-backed AYar- ^ A few may sometimes winter/' 



bier, Nashville Warbler, Hairy Wood- « Cf . my remarks in foot-note on 



pecker and Fish Hawk have no real p. 484. — W. B. 



claims to a place in this list ; and the § True ;ja//«arM?/i occurs only as 



Hermit Thrush, Blackburnian War- a migrant; but the Yellow Red-poll 



bier, Canada Flycatcher and Solitary (D. ]). hypochrysea) breeds in eastern 



Vireo are by no means typical " Cana- Maine. — W. B. 



dian " forms. There are no good rea- || This Titmouse breeds in northern 



sons for thinking that the Northern New England. — W. B. 



Shrike breeds in any part of New ^ With one extraordinary exception. 



England, and it would be safer to in- See p. 192. 



elude the Pigeon Hawk, also, in the IT The Prairie Horned Lark {0. a. 



list of migrants. — W. B. praticola) is now known to breed in 



I A small form {Turdus alicice Vermont and western Massachusetts. 



hicknelli) of the Gray-cheeked Thrush — W. B. 



