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263. Passerina cyanea (Linn.). Indigo-bird. 



Breeding Range — Eastern U. S. to southern Canada. 

 Winter Distribution — S. A. 



Common summer resident, arriving at Philadelphia about May 10 

 and departing October 1. 



264, Spi%a anieincana (Gmei>.).* Dickcissel. Black- 



throated Bunting. 



Breeding Range — Central U. S. (scarce or local east of the AUeghanies). 

 Winter Distribution — Central and western S. A. 



Very rare straggler. 



Twenty years ago this was a common species in certain parts of 

 New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, though always of local dis- 

 tribution. It formerly bred near Frankford, Pa., where specimens 

 were secured by W. L. Collins as late as 1879. 



The only recent captures that we have noted are : 



Maurice River, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1890. W. L. Baily. 



Chestnut Hill, Philada., June 7, 1879, W. L. Abbott [Coll. Acad. Nat. Set.). 



Family Tanagridse — The Tanagers. 



Only two species occur in the eastern United States. 



265, Firaiigaerythronielas^i^ii^i^- Scarlet Tanager. 



Breeding Range — Eastern U. S. and southern Canada, mainly north of 



the Carolinian Fauna. 



Winter Distribution — West Indies and Mexico to S. A. 



Common transient in the vicinity of Philadelphia, but not very 



plentiful and rather local during the breeding season. It is a much 



more common breeder along the Susquehanna hills in York county, 



Pa., and on the Mine Ridge, Lancaster county ; becoming still more 



*The type specimen of Townsend's Bunting, Spiza townsendi Aud., was se- 

 cured near New Garden, Chester county, Pa., May 11, 1833. No other speci- 

 men has ever been discovered which lends weight to the theory that this 

 bird is a very peculiar variation of S. americana or a hybrid between that 

 and some other species. The original specimen is still preserved in the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



