244 EEPOET OF NEW JEESEY STATE MUSEUM. 



north as Plainfield (common, Miller), Summit (rare, Holmes) ; at 

 South Orange Mr. Babson writes me that he has found two nests, ana 

 Mr. H. B. Bailey^ records another. At Morristown Thurber calls it 

 rare, and Mr. Caskey has never seen it. 



595 Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linnseus). 

 Eose-breasted Grosbeak. 



PLATE 63. 



Adult male. — Length, 8.20. Wing, 4. Head, throat and back, black ; rump, 

 white, tipped with black ; wings and tail, black, tipped or marked with white ; 

 breast and under wing-coverts, bright pink ; rest of under parts, white. 



Female. — Above, brown, streaked with gray and buff ; a buff line down the 

 center of the crown and white line over the eye ; below, buff, streaked with 

 brown ; under wing-coverts, orange-yellow ; wings and tail, brown. 



Young in first autumn. — Similar to female, but under wing-coverts pink. 



ISlest in bushes or low trees ; eggs, three to four, greenish-blue, spotted with 

 reddish-brown, 1.00 x .75. 



Common summer resident in the northern counties ; transient visit- 

 ant in the south; breeds at Princeton (Babson), near Trenton (Ab- 

 bott), Plainfield (Miller), Summit (Hann and Callender), Paterson 

 (Clark), Hopatcong (D wight), Eidgewood (Hales), Hudson Valley 

 (Chapman) ; also one nest at Haddonfield, July, 1897,^ and one at 

 Beverly, June 1st, 1896.^ William B. Evans also heard the bird in 

 full song at Bridgeboro, Burlington count}^ June 24th, 1901, and at 

 Mount Holly, July 20th, 1901.* Mr. Clarence Brown found a single 

 bird at Eutherford from January 26th to February 13th, 1908, a re- 

 markable occurrence. The bird was photographed when it came for 

 food, makinor identification certain.^ 



' Auk, 1886, p. 410. 



= Moore, Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C, III., p. 10. 



^ Reed, Auk. 1897, p. 32.3. 



* Cassinia, 1901, pp. 32-34. 



= Bird Lore, 1908, p. 82. 



