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188. Cyanospiza cyanea (Linn.) INDIGO BUNTING. 



A rather common summer resident of the Transition region. 

 In the southern part of the state it is very common in certain 

 localities, and follows the lower valleys well up among the 

 White Mountains. It is also recorded as not common about 

 Lake Umbagog. During September considerable flocks of old 

 birds and fully -grown young gather around the weed-grown 

 fields and standing corn, and at Intervale, in the Saco valley, 

 remain until the first of October when the frosts are heavy. 

 Mr. G. H. Thayer writes me that at Dublin, but few occur so 

 high up as 1,400 feet. 



Dates : May 9 to October i. 



189. Piraiiga erythromelas Vieill. SCARLET TANAGER. 



A not uncommon summer resident of the Transition and sub- 

 Canadian woods. In the White Mountains, I have found it in 

 small numbers on the mountain sides as far as the upper limit 

 of the beech woods, some 2,000 feet. According to Mr. C. J. 

 Maynard, it is rare at Umbagog, and is doubtless wanting in 

 the coniferous forests of the northern part of the state. The 

 males cease singing about the second week in July, and owing 

 to their habit of keeping to the upper regions of the forest trees, 

 are not very frequently observed in late summer. At Intervale, I 

 have noted occasional birds in the beech woods up to September 

 1 3th, and Frank Bolles ('93b) records one seen at Chocorua so 

 late as the 25th of that month, 1891. 



Dates : May 13 to September 25. 



Note: Piranga r ubra (Linn.). SUMMET TANAGER. 



Although this bird has twice been recorded from New Hampshire, once 

 by Mi. C. F. Goodhue, who believed he saw one at Webster ('77a, p. 49), 

 and once by Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 27), who adduces the testimony of 

 Mr. George Stolworthy of Franklin to the effect that he saw a number of 

 males at that place in the early summer of 1875, neither of the records 

 seems to stand on a sufficiently definite basis to warrant according the 

 species a place in the present list. 



19O. JProgne subis (Linn.). PURPLE MARTIN. 

 A not uncommon, though local summer resident of the Tran- 

 sition valleys throughout the southern and central parts of the 



