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there from some wood road, and flies to the bushes with its 

 characteristic <k chuck." In the Acworth Public library col- 

 lection there is a specimen taken at that town so late as Novem- 

 ber 24, 1883. I have observed the males already in song on 

 their arrival at their breeding grounds at Chocorua, April 20, 

 1900 ; the song period is practically over by July 20. 

 Dates : April 19 to November 24. 



253. Merula migratoria (Linn.). AMERICAN ROBIN. 

 An abundant spring and fall migrant and common summer 

 resident of the Transition areas; also a rither irregular winter 

 resident. During the summer, these birds are generally found 

 near habitations, and nest in the shade trees about dwellings or 

 in the orchards. Occasionally, however, as in the White Moun- 

 tains, birds will nest in the pine trees on the edge of the woods, 

 and Mr. G. H. Thayer also writes me that they sometimes breed 

 in the wild spruce woods of Mt. Monadnock. On June 14, 1902, 

 Mr. A. H. Clark and I noted a single bird in the dense woods 

 on Imp Mountain of the Carter Range, at about 3,500 feet, pos- 

 sibly only a stray specimen. In August after the young are on 

 the wing, large flocks gather to feed on the wild cherries ripening 

 in the valleys. Others are to be found scattered in small flocks 

 through the woods at the lower altitudes, and I have on one or 

 two occasions found small flocks about the lakelets in Carter's 

 Notch in mid-September, the birds having apparently paused in 

 their southward flight to feed. Again, I noted a single bird on 

 the nearly barren summit of Mt. Might (4,770 feet) of the Car- 

 ter range, and on Aug. 27, 1901, three birds flew past me and 

 alighted among the scrubby firs in the col between Mt. Jefferson 

 and Mt. Adams of the Presidential range. Dr. A. P. Chad- 

 bourne ('87) also notes a wandering pair seen on July 12, 1886, 

 on the Crawford Bridle path at an altitude of 5,080 feet. A few 

 robins appear to winter with more or less regularity in the south- 

 eastern part of the state. Mr. W. B. Cram reports them as found 

 at Hampton Falls the year round; and Mr. F. W. Batchelder 

 (:oo, p. 138) states that a few winter about Manchester, while 

 a Mr. J. H. Johnson ('92) records them in January, 1892, in 

 *' central New Hampshire." There are apparently but few oth- 



