652 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



Genus GUI R AC A Swainson. 



597. Guiraca ccerulea (Linn.). Blue Grosbeak. 



Records of this species have been attributed to Maine and bandied about 

 in various publications, being perhaps first mentioned in the Proceedings of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, 9, p. 127, and subsequently in New 

 England Bird Life. Mr. Boardman stated to me in a letter, written just 

 previous to publication of List of Birds of Maine, that two specimens were 

 taken at GRAND MENAN, NEW BRUNSWICK, and that the various records 

 referred to these, and that it was not a bird of Maine. 



Genus CYANOSPIZA. Baird. 



601. Cyanospiza ciris (Linn.). Painted Bunting. 



An adult male, clearly an escaped captive bird, was found dead in the 

 yard of Miss C. S. Eastman in Portland, June 10, 1904, and through Mr. W. 

 H. Brownson was brought into Mr. Norton's possession and preserved, (Jovu-- 

 nal Maine Ornithological Society, 1904, p. 56). 



Family VIREONID.E. Vireos. 

 Genus VIREO Vieillot. 

 631. Vireo noveboracensis (Gmel.). White-eyed Vireo. 



Given by Mr. Smith in his list, but no specimen was taken in the State, 

 and being essentially a bird of the Carolinian fauna, the occurrence in Maine 

 is more than doubtful. 



Family MNIOTILTID.E. Wood Warblers. 

 Genus HELMITHEROS Rafinesque. 

 639. Helmitherosve7-mivorus(^Gme\.\ Worm-eating Warbler. 



Recorded from Maine by Verrill in Proceedings of Essex Institute, 3, p. 156, 

 but though I have not seen the record in the publication cited, its occur- 

 rence seems doubtful, being ignored by subsequent writers, still there is a 

 possibility that the species does occur, the only question being as to whether 

 or not a mistake in identification has been made. Mr. J. Waldo Nash has 

 written that he saw a pair of these birds with young at Norway in 1893. 



Genus HELMINTHOPHILA Ridgway. 

 646. Htim'mtho])hila celata (Say). Orange-crowned Warbler. 



Audubon records the species as breeding in eastern Maine, but it seems 

 very likely it is a mistake, and subsequent writers have so regarded his state- 

 ment. There is said to be a set of eggs in the Smithsonian Institution 



