294 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



BRONX REGION. Common summer resident, May 10, 

 1920 (L. N. Nichols) to October 16, 1921 (Griscom). 

 New Jersey. Common summer resident throughout. Casual 

 at Morristown, April 12, 1887. 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Common resident, May 4, 1912 

 (Griscom) to October 22, 1904 (Hix). 



SUMMER TANAGER (Piranga rubrd) 



Fifty or more years ago this species nested regularly in 

 southern New Jersey and wandered casually into our area. 

 There are scarcely any recent records. 



Long Island. Casual visitant, thirteen records between April 

 6 and May 16, the last in 1902. 

 MASTIC. One record. 



New Jersey. Recorded from Morristown without data by 

 Thurber (1887). The only recent record for the State is a male col- 

 lected near Leonia, Bergen County, May 5, 1916 by J. A. Weber. 



PUKPLE MARTIN (Progne subis) 



As is well known, this bird breeds in colonies which are 

 very locally distributed in our area. The House Sparrow and 

 the Starling are factors which are too strong for it, and it has 

 been steadily decreasing in the last forty years. The most 

 surprising thing about the Martin, however, is its rarity as a 

 transient, as it is practically unrecorded away from the 

 vicinity of a breeding colony. It is hard to believe that so 

 large, conspicuous and noisy a Swallow is overlooked. 



Long Island. Still a common summer resident on the eastern 

 half of the island. The westernmost colony at Baldwin was 

 deserted two years ago. April 2 to September 20. 



ORIENT. Breeding colony at Greenport; otherwise a rare 

 spring and common fall transient; April 18, 1905 to July 5 to 

 September 15. 



MASTIC. Fairly common summer resident, decreasing. 

 LONG BEACH. Occasional on migration; May 19, 1915 to 

 June 13, 1918; August 11, 1921 to September 3, 1919 (all 

 Bicknell). 



New York State. No breeding colony remaining except near 

 Rye (Lee S. Crandall), and now hardly known as a transient; a 

 single pair started to nest on Staten Island in 1917 (Cleaves) . ' 



