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Chipping Sparrow. Spizella socialis. Abundant summer resident 

 everywhere, April 8 to November. 



Field Sparrow. Spizella pusilla. Common summer resident, 

 April 14 to November. Fields. 



[unco. Snowbird. Junco hyemalis. Common winter visitant, 

 September to April. Bushes by roadsides. 



Song Sparrow. Melospiza fasciata. Common summer resident, 

 sometimes winter resident, March 10 to November. Everywhere. 



Swamp Sparrow. Melospiza georgiana. Summer resident, April 15 

 to October. Swamps. 



Fox Sparrow. Passerella iliaca. Common transient visitant, March 

 13 to November. Roadsides. 



Towhee. Chewink. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Common summer 

 resident, May 1 to October. Bushes on ground. 



Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. Habia ludoviciana. Common summer 

 resident, May 4 to September. Main Street. 



Indigo Bird. Passerina cyanea. Common summer resident, 

 May 1 1 to October. Roadsides. 



Scarlet Tanager. Piranga erythromelas. May 13 to October. 

 Forests. 



Purple Martin. Progne subis. Very rare, once common resident. 

 Last seen May 5, 1904. Bird houses. 



Cliff Swallow. Eave Swallow. Petrochelidon lunifrons. Rather 

 rare summer resident, May 1 to September. Mr. Z. Fitch's barn 

 eaves. 



Barn Swallow. Chelidon erythrogaster. Common summer resi- 

 dent, April 19 to September. Barns. 



Tree Swallow. White-Bellied Swallow. Tachycineta bicolor. Com- 

 mon summer resident, March 28 to October. In trees and houses. 



Bank Swallow. Clivicola riparia. Common summer resident, 

 May 1 to September. Nashua River banks- 



Cedar Waxwing. Cedar-bird. Ampelis cedrorum. Permanent 

 resident. Common. Orchards. 



Northern Shrike. Butcher-Bird. Lanius borealis. Winter visitant, 

 November to March. 



Red-Eyed Vireo. Vireo olivaceus. Common everywhere. Sum- 

 mer resident, May 5 to September. Elms everywhere. 



Philadelphia Vireo. Vireo philadelphicus. Very rare transient 

 visitant. Seen once near Blood's lily moat, May 6, 1905. 



Warbling Vireo. Vireo gilvus. Common summer resident, May 8 

 to September. Roadsides. 



