The Migration of North American Birds 



SECOND SERIES 



XIII. EUROPEAN STARLING AND THE BOBOLINK 



Compiled by Harry C. Oberholser, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey 



EUROPEAN STARLING 



The European Starling, which has a wide distribution in Europe, was 

 introduced into the United States about 1890, when a number were brought 

 to New York City and there liberated. Since that time the species has spread 

 into adjoining territory in southern New England and the Middle Atlantic 

 States. It now breeds north to southeastern Maine, southern Vermont, and 

 central New York; west to central Pennsylvania, eastern West Virginia, 

 and central Virginia; and south to southeastern Virginia. It has wandered, 

 chiefly in winter, also to Ohio, and south to Alabama and Georgia. It probably 

 will continue to spread into suitable areas in the eastern United States. The 

 records in the following table indicate, as far as known, its appearance in 

 various parts of the eastern United States. 



LOCALITY 



Fryeburg, Maine 



Hinsdale, N. H 



Bennington, Vt 



Bellows Falls, Vt 



Springfield, Mass. (near) 



Meriden, Conn 



New Haven, Conn 



Rochester, N. Y 



Orient, L. I 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y 



New York City, N. Y. (80 birds introduced) 



Staten Island, N. Y 



Englewood, N. J 



Plainfield, N. J 



Princeton, N.J 



Morristown, N.J 



Salem, N. J 



Philadelphia, Pa 



State College, Pa 



Easton, Md 



Baltimore, Md. (near) 



Washington, D. C 



Newport News, Va 



Savannah, Ga : 



Junction of Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers, Alabama. 



Earliest known date 

 of appearance 



December, 191 1 

 December 12, 1913 

 March, 1915 

 April, 1908 

 March 9, 1908 

 December 3, 1900 

 January 2, 191 8 

 May 12, 1907 



1907 

 March 6, 1890 



March 15, 1898 

 February 11, 1900 

 December, 1905 

 March 20, 1907 

 December 5, 1911 

 December, 1907 

 February 29, 1916 

 February 15, 1910 

 October 24, 1913 

 February 9, 1913 

 January 4, 191 2 

 November 10, 191 7 

 January 4, 1920 



Breeding 

 Records 



1916 



1910 



189; 



BOBOLINK 



The well-known Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) is a summer resident 

 and breeds in North America, north to northern Nova Scotia, central Quebec, 

 central Ontario, central Saskatchewan, central Alberta, and southern British 

 Columbia; west to southwestern British Columbia, eastern Oregon, and north- 



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