ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES HOW 
274. Wilsonia mitrata (Gmel.).. Hoopep WARBLER. 
A rare or accidental summer visitant, perhaps rarely breeding. 
Mr. J. B. Grimes reports it as formerly observed in the breeding 
season-near Pittsfield. The records are: Arook/ine, one taken 
June 25, 1879, by Wm. Adair;? Provincetown, a male taken on 
June 25, 1888, by Harry C. Whorf:3 Zaunton, two birds noted on 
May 8, 1888, by Mr. B. A. Scudder ;* Aramingham, a male taken 
in a barn on October 15, 1893.° 
275. Icteria virens (Linn.), YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 
A very rare summer resident, except locally, and in the valleys 
of Berkshire County where it is not rare in summer. 
Amherst: ‘“ One instance.’’ Berkshire: ‘‘ A not rare summer resi- 
dent.’? Bristol County: ‘Rare summer resident.’? Brookline: One 
record. Cambridge: Rather rare summer resident. Cohasset: ‘ One 
instance.” Dedham: Recorded. Essex County: ‘“ Summer visitant. 
Rare.” [Now locally common.] Springfield: ‘“ Rare, but regular summer 
resident.’’ Templeton : [One instance, Winchendon.—Brewster.] Welles- 
ley: ‘Rare local, summer resident.” 
276. Geothlypis trichas brachidactyla (Swains.). Mary- 
LAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
An abundant summer resident, occasional in winter, having 
been twice observed at Fresh Pond, Cambridge, on January 13, 
18go% and once in December,’ andat Framingham in January, 1884." 
April 30 to October 21 (November 27); (Winter). 
Amherst: ‘‘ Abundant summer resident.” Berkshire: “Common 
summer resident. Bristol County: ‘“ Very common summer resident.” 
Brookline: ‘Common summer resident.” Cambridge: Abundant 
summer resident. Cohasset: “Abundant in summer.” Dedham : 
‘““Very common.” Essex County: ‘‘ Summer visitant. Abundant.” 
Ipswich: “ Abundant summer resident.” Martha’s Vineyard: ‘* Com- 
mon summer resident.” Springfield: ‘‘ Abundant summer resident.” 
1Faxon and Hoffmann; Birds of Berkshire, 1900, pp. 126, 127, pp. 20, 21 
of separate. 
2 Deane; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. V, No. 2, Apr., 1880, pp. 117, 118. 
3 Hitchcock; Auk, Vol. VII, No. 4, Oct., 1890, p. 407. 
4Copeland ; zz MWS. 
5 Eastman; Auk, Voi. XIV, No. 3, July, 1897, p. 327. 
8 Faxon; Auk, Vol. VII, No. 4, Oct., 1890, p. 409. 
7 Faxon ; 72 verbts. 
8 Browne; Auk, Vol. I, No. 4, Oct., 1884, p. 389. 
