American Museum of Natural History. 255 



276. Yireo philadelphicus. PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Very 

 rare. There are but few records of its occurrence in the State, 

 as follows: Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1875 (Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, I, 1876, 19); Magnolia, Sept. 18, 1879 (Townsend, ibid., V, 

 1880, 53); Brookline, Sept. 1880? (Brewster, ibid., VI, 1881, $ty. U 

 It has been found to be a not very uncommon summer resident 

 in northern Maine (see especially Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 V, 1880, 1-7). 



*277. Tireo gilvus. WARBLING VIREO. Common summer 

 resident. 



*278. Tireo flavifrons. YELLOW-THROATED VIREO. Rather 

 common summer resident. 



*279. Vireo solitarius. BLUE-HEADED VIREO. Common 

 spring and autumn migrant; a few stay through the summer and 

 breed. 



*280r Tireo noveboracensis. WHITE-EYED VIREO. More or 

 less common summer resident at certain localities. 



*281. Mniotilta varia. BLACK-AND-WHITE CREEPER. Com- 

 mon summer resident. 



[282.] Protonotaria citrea. PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. 

 Accidental. Concord, May 9, 1886 (Brewster^ Auk, III, 1886, 410). 

 Long since introduced into the lists of New England birds on the 

 basis of its capture at or near Calais, Me. ( Verrill, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., IX, 1863, 234). The specimen seems to have 

 been captured, however, at St. Stephen's, just within the bor- 

 ders of New Brunswick (Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, I, 1874, 184, 186), though still sometimes attributed 

 to Maine (Stearns and Cones, New England Bird Life, .1, 1881, 

 no; Smith, Forest and Stream, XIX, No. 23, Jan. 4, 1883, 445). 

 One was taken at South Kingstown, R. I., April 21, 1884 (Jencks, 

 Random Notes on Nat. Hist., I, 1884, No. 5, 8, and No. 6, 8). 

 Its usual northern limit along the Atlantic coast, however, seems 

 to be the vicinity of Philadelphia. 



[283.] Helmitherus vermivorus. WORM-EATING WARBLER. 

 A rare or accidental straggler from the south. The only 

 record of its capture in the State is Cambridge, Sept. 19, 1881 

 1886.] 



