ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS 291 



CENTRAL PARK. Common transient; May 3, 1906 (Hix) 

 to May 22, 1899 (Chubb); September 8, 1913 (Hix) to 

 September 28, 1913 (Hix); one captured December 16, 1909 

 and kept in the Park Zoo. 



BRONX REGION. Uncommon summer resident, the numbers 

 fluctuating from year to year, May 6, 1916 (L. N. Nichols) to 

 October 21, 1921 (L. N. Nichols). 



New Jersey. Common summer resident throughout, increas- 

 ing northward and westward. The latest date before me is Sep- 

 tember 30, 1917 near Elizabeth (Urner). Clarence D. Brown has 

 recorded a male which visited a feeding station at Rutherford 

 from January 26 to February 13, 1908. 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Common summer resident, May 1, 

 1886 (Chapman) to September 25, 1919 (L. N. Nichols). 



BLUE GROSBEAK (Guiraca cserulea) 



An accidental visitant from the South. The numerous 

 reports of the species from the northeast in recent years by 

 inexperienced observers lead inevitably to the suspicion that 

 the Indigo Bunting is misidentified. Most of such reports 

 from this area are here omitted. 



Long Island. Specimen collected at Canarsie in May, 1843; 

 one seen and carefully studied at Long Beach October 15, 1916 by 

 J. M. Johnson and C. H. Rogers, both experienced field ornitholo- 

 gists previously familiar with the species in life. 



New York State. Specimen collected on Manhattan Island 

 May 15, .1838. There is no evidence that this bird should be 

 credited $0 Central Park. 



New Jefsey. No specimens have ever been taken in our area. 

 The published report that a taxidermist, Akhurst by name, saw 

 several in a single day many years ago near Snake Hill is particu- 

 larly open to suspicion and unconvincing. Thurber records it from 

 Morristown on the authority of a Mr. Fairchild, but no sight record 

 with such an absence of data would receive any credence today; 

 nor can I see that the antiquity of the report adds to its value. The 

 occurrence of this species in our section of New Jersey is not worth 

 regarding as even hypothetical in my opinion. 



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