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57. MyiodiOCtes Canadensis (Linne) Audubon. Canadian Fly-catching 



Warbler. 



Common during the migrations. Arrives early in May. Have 

 taken it from the 6th to the 29th. Mr. W. W. Coe informs me that 

 it doubtless breeds about Portland, Conn., as he has seen it there 

 throughout the summer. 



58. Setophaga ruticilla (Linne) Swainson. Redstart. 



A common summer resident ; breeds. Arrives early in May. Have 

 taken it from May 8th to September 22d. Mr. Stadtmiiller has a 

 very beautiful nest of this species which "was placed in the fork of 

 an oak tree about fifteen feet from the ground. It was built of grass 

 and bits of paper, and covered with cotton all over outside, and lined 

 with a few horse hairs."* It contained four eggs, June 10, 1874. 



Family, TANAG-RIDuE. 



59. Pyranga rilbra (Linne) Vieillot. Scarlet Tanager. 



A summer resident ; not uncommon. Most frequent during the 

 spring migrations; breeds. Arrives about May 10th, after which 

 date they are common till the first of June. Took a female Sept. 

 llth, 1875. 



60. Pyranga aestiva (Linne) Vieillot. Summer Redbird. 



A rare summer visitant from the South. " Stratford and New 

 Haven, Linsley," and in a foot-note he further states that "The Sum- 

 mer Redbird is more rare than the Scarlet Tanager, though I have 

 taken both here [Stratford] during the season of cherry blossoms."f 

 In the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club for Jan., 1877 

 (vol. ii, No. 1, p. 21), Mr. Purdie says, " Mr. Jencks informs me that 

 a male was shot, a few years since, on Ten-mile River, six or eight 

 miles northeast of Providence," R. I. I have never met with it except 

 in Florida, where it has a very pleasant song. Dr. Thompson, of this 

 city, informs me that he shot one near New Haven, in summer, about 

 five years ago ; and I am told by Prof. Wm. T). Whitney that a 

 friend of his, who was perfectly familar with the species, saw two 

 individuals, at different seasons, in Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven. 



* MS. notes of the Stadtmiiller Brothers. 



f Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, vol. xliv, No. 2, p. 261. April, 1843. 



