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3,000 feet in the White Mountains. Apparently the great freeze 

 of 1899 killed numbers of the early migrants, and in the White 

 Mountains especially, I have noticed an apparent diminution in 

 their numbers in the two following seasons. 

 Dates : April 29 to October 7. 



Note: Vireo noveboracensis (Gmel.). ^WHITE-EYED VIREO. 



This species probably reaches the extreme southwestern part of the 

 state at times, and has been recorded by Mr. F. W. Batchelder ( : oo, p. 

 133) to have bred near Lake Massabesic, Manchester, in 1899, and pre- 

 viously on the Hooksett Road in the same town. Mr. Ned Dearborn 

 ('98, p. 29) includes it among the birds of Belknap and Merrimack Coun- 

 ties on the authority of a Mr. George Stolworthy but this record is per- 

 haps to be questioned. Mr. W. E. Cram of Hampton Falls also writes me 

 that he is confident he has once observed it at that place. At present, 

 however, it seems safer to exclude the bird from the New Hampshire list 

 awaiting an undoubted record. 



204. Vireo belli! Aud. BEI.I/S VIREO. 



An accidental visitant from the interior. Mr. William Brew- 

 ster ( : 01) records that Mr. Ned Dearborn, while driving along 

 a country road in Durham, on November 19, 1897, observed a 

 small bird hopping about some poison-ivy vines which had 

 overrun a stone wall. Mr. Dearborn shot the bird and submit- 

 ted it to Mr. Brewster for examination, and the latter states 

 that it proves to be a perfectly typical example of this species. 



205. Mniotilta varia (lyinn.). BLACK AND WHITE 

 WARBLER. 



A common spring and fall migrant and less common summer 

 resident throughout the Transition and sub-Canadian woods. 

 Among the White Mountains it appears to be quite absent in 

 the breeding season above the 3,000 foot level, and is also rare or 

 wanting in the balsam and spruce forests of the northern part 

 of the state. About Intervale, I have found it common all sum- 

 mer in the lowland woods of mixed or deciduous growth. 



Dates : April 30 to September 29. 



Note : Helmitherus vermivorus (Gmel.). WORM-EATING WAR- 



A specimen is recorded as seen at Manchester on Oct. i, 1900, by a Mrs. 

 A. A. Macleod ( : oo, p. 102) but the record is not properly substantiated. 



