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111. IcrerIA visens (Linn.) Yellow-breasted Chat. An 
abundant summer resident. Found usually along the border 
of woods or haunting the growths of bushes in open fields 
along streams. 
112. Hoopep WARBLER, Catalogued by Prof. Atkinson, Is 
probably a rare summer resident. 
113, SETOPHAGA RUTICULLA (Linn.) American Redstart. 
A common migrant and a rather rare sojourner in summer. 
Family Motacillidae. 
114. ANTHUS PENNSILVANICUS (Lath.) American Pipit; Tit- 
lark. About nine o’clock on the morning of January 4, 1899 
I saw a flock of fully one hundred titlarks in the open piece 
of ground at the eastern side of the university campus. Have 
on two other occasions observed flocks of these birds at a dis- 
tance, but always during the coldest parts of the winter. 
Family Troglodytidae. 
115. Mimus poLyGLorros (Linn.) Mockingbird. Several pairs 
of these birds are constant residents at Chapel Hill. There 
is a great difference in the musical power of different birds of 
this species. An especially fine singer, has for the past two 
years or more dwelt among th= shade trees of the lawns in the 
neighborhood of the Episcopa! church. 
116. GALEOSCOPTES CAROLINENSIS (Linn.) Catbird. An 
abundant species in summer. The first ones arrive from the 
south near the middle of April. 
117, HArPORHYNCHUS RUFUs (Linn.) Brown ‘Thrasher; 
Brown Thrush. These fine songsters come regularly to spend 
the summer in the thickets and groves about the village. 
Rarely also they spend the winter here. On January 2, 1899, 
I observed one on the lawn surrounding the home of Prof. 
Harrington. Itwas in company with a number of snowbirds 
and sparrows, and had apparently taken up its winter abode 
among them. 
118. THvoTHoRUS LUDOVICIANUS (Lath.) Thisis one of the 
few species of birds which sing for us in the winter. It 
