98 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS 



266. Hylocichla mustelina (Gmel.). WOOD THRUSH. 



A fairly common summer resident. It has only in the last few 

 years become at all common in Berkshire County. 

 (April 26) May i to September 28 (October 10). 



Amherst : "Uncommon summer resident." Berkshire: " Fair] y com- 

 mon summer resident." Bristol County : " Common summer resi- 

 dent." Brookline : "Common summer resident." Cambridge: Rather 

 common summer resident. Cohasset: "Abundant summer resident." 

 Dedham : "Common." Essex County: " Summer visitant. Common." 

 Springfield: "Common summer resident." Templeton : "Rare sum- 

 mer resident." Wellesley : " Rather common summer resident." 



267. Polioptila cserulea (Linn.) . BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER. 

 Accidental from the south. The records are : Chatham, one 



was seen November 18, 1877, by Arthur Smith, and a few days 

 later a female, probably the same bird, was taken by Stephen 

 Decatur ; l Falmouth, an adult male was captured by F. C. Swift, 

 December 18, 1877 ; 2 this bird is now in the mounted collection 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History ; Magnolia, an im- 

 mature female was taken by Mr. Outram Bangs, August 27, 

 1879 ; 3 Ostervitte^ an adult female was captured September 26, 

 1879, by Dr. A. P. Chadbourne ; 4 Brookline, a bird taken Sep- 

 tember 8, 1887, by Dr. A. L. Reagh ; 5 Highland Light, an adult 

 female shot October 9, 1889, by Mr. G. S. Miller, Jr. 6 



268. Regulus calendula (Linn.). RUBY-CROWNED KING- 

 LET. 



A common spring and autumn migrant ; casual in winter, at 

 Highland Light, January 15, 1892 ; 7 Fresh Pond, December 23, 

 i8 99 . 8 



April 5 to May 13 ; September 23 to November 16 (Winter). 



Amherst: "Common migrant." Berkshire: "Rather common tran- 

 sient visitant in the spring and autumn." Bristol County : "Uncommon' 



1 Deane; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. Ill, No. i, Jan., 1878, p. 45. 



2 Brewer ; ibid., No. 3, July, pp. 146, 147. 



3 Deane ; ibid., Vol. V, No. i, Jan., 1880, p. 47. 



4 Brewer; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XX, 1879, P- 26 4> footnote 2. 



5 Howe ; Brookline Chronicle, Jan. 30, 1897. 



6 Miller; Auk, Vol. VII, No. 3, July, 1890, p. 229. 



7 White; O. & O., Vol. XVII, No. 6, June, 1882, p. 85.. 



8 Faxon ; in verbis. 



