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period is May and again in September, when flights of imma- 

 ture birds are occasionally recorded. Some years, however, 

 it will not appear at all ; in others it will appear in March and 

 November. Almost every possible combination of these 

 various possibilities has occurred. 



Long Island. Rare and irregular as a transient, sometimes 

 wintering, very rarely nesting. Bred with some regularity at 

 Astoria in the early 'eighties, a locality long since destroyed. A pair 

 nested in 1896 and 1897 at Flushing (Griscom). Since then I have 

 no record of a pair nesting two years consecutively anywhere on 

 the Island. Transients may be expected from March 21 to May 

 17, and from September 3 to November 28. 



ORIENT. Rare summer resident at East Marion and 

 Southold; otherwise a rare and irregular visitant from July to 

 May. 



MASTIC. Uncommon transient, rare in winter. 

 LONG BEACH. Casual, five records; May 10, 1918 (Bick- 

 nell); August 30, 1921 (Bicknell) to September 25, 1919 

 (Bicknell). 



New York State. Chiefly a rare transient; likely to breed or 

 winter anywhere, but rarely and irregularly. 



CENTRAL PARK. Decidedly rare transient; March 24, 

 1914 (Hix) to March 31, 1910 (Anne A. Crolius); May 9, 

 1910 (Griscom) to May 15, 1914 (Griscom); September 19, 

 1914 (Hix) to October 24, 1907 (Griscom). 



BRONX REGION. Rare and erratic; a big flight at River- 

 dale from September 1881 to May 1882 (Bicknell); bred at 

 Riverdale in 1917 and 1921 (Griscom); apparently a rare 

 resident in the eastern sections (L. N. Nichols); no signs of 

 transients in recent years. 



New Jersey. A rare transient or irregular summer resident 

 according to locality, but breeds here and there throughout our 

 area; rarely wintering. For years most plentiful in the Passaic and 

 Dead River valleys, but at the moment of writing greatly decreased 

 there. It seems useless to cite breeding localities, as the bird may 

 fail to reappear next season, or may appear somewhere else. 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Rare and irregular transient; 

 February 6, 1915 (J. T. Nichols) to March 25, 1911 (Griscom); 

 April 16, 1921 (Bowdish) to May 23, 1918 (L. N. Nichols); Sep- 

 tember 14 to September 21, 1886 (Chapman); October 31 to 



