276 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



now in the mounted collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at 

 Cambridge. This is the only record for the State. 



246 [607] Piranga ludoviciana (Wils.). 

 Louisiana Tanager. 



Accidental visitor from the west. 



The only record for this bird in Massachusetts is of an adult male that was 

 captured at Lynn ^ in a severe snowstorm on January 20th, 1878. In Mr. W. 

 A. Jeffries' notes for 1878, he says: "This bird flew against a house on the 

 outskirts of Lynn attracted by the caged birds within ; it was caught in a cage 

 and sold to A. M. Tufts. It seemed not to have been a caged bird." The 

 specimen, a male, not a female as stated by some, is now in the collection of the 

 Peabody Academy labeled Lynn, February 8th, 1878. Howe and Allen (p. 113) 

 for some reason, say : " Salem (not Lynn)." 



247 [608] Piranga erythromelas Vieill. 

 Scarlet Tanager. 



Not uncommon summer resident ; (April 30) May 10 to October 16. 



Eggs: June 5. 



It is a curious fact that a bird of such conspicuous plumage and as common 

 as is the Scarlet Tanager should be so rarely seen except by bird students. 



248 [610] Piranga rubra (Linn.). 

 Summer Tanager. 



Accidental visitor from the south. 



There are four specimens from the County and only two other records for 

 the State. Two ^ were taken at Lynn after a severe storm, on April 2 ist, 1852, 



' T. M. Brewer: Forest and Stream, vol. lo, p. 95, 1878. 

 "F. W. Putnam: Proc. Essex Inst., vol. i, p. 224, 1856. 



