ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES IOI 



274. Wilsonia mitrata (Gmel.). HOODED WARBLER. 



A rare or accidental summer visitant, perhaps rarely breeding. 

 Mr. J. B. Grimes reports it as formerly observed in the breeding 

 season near Pittsfield. 1 The records are : Brookline, one taken 

 June 25, 1879, by Wm. Adair; 2 Provincetown, a male taken on 

 June 25, 1888, by Harry C. Whorf : 3 Taimton, two birds noted on 

 May 8, 1888, by Mr. B. A. Scudder ; 4 Framingham, a male taken 

 in a barn on October 15^ 1893. 5 



275. Icteria virens (Linn.). YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 



A very rare summer resident, except locally, and in the valleys 

 of Berkshire County where it is not rare in summer. 



Amherst : "One instance." Berkshire: "A not rare summer resi- 

 dent.'' Bristol County: "Rare summer resident." Brookline: One 

 record. Cambridge : Rather rare summer resident. Cohasset : " One 

 instance." Dedham : Recorded. Essex County : " Summer visitant. 

 Rare." [Xo\v locally common.] Springfield: " Rare, but regular summer 

 resident." Templeton : [One instance, Winchendon. Brewster.] Welles- 

 ley: " Rare local, summer resident." 



276. Geothlypis trichas brachidactyla (Swains.). MARY- 

 LAND YELLOW-THROAT. 



An abundant summer resident, occasional in winter, having 

 been twice observed at Fresh Pond, Cambridge, on January 13 

 i Sgo 6 and once in December, 7 and at Framingham in January, 1 884. 8 



April 30 to October 21 (November 27); (Winter). 



Amherst: "Abundant summer resident." Berkshire: "Common 

 summer resident Bristol County: " Very common summer resident." 

 Brookline: "Common slimmer resident." Cambridge: Abundant 

 summer resident. Cohasset: "Abundant in summer." Dedham: 

 'Very common." Essex County: "Summer visitant. Abundant." 

 Ipswich: u Abundant summer resident." Martha's Vineyard: "Com- 

 mon summer resident." Springfield: "Abundant summer resident." 



1 Faxon and Hoffmann; Birds of Berkshire, 1900, pp. 126, 127, pp. 20. 21 

 of separate. 



*Deane ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. V, No. 2, Apr., 1880, pp. 117, 118. 



3 Hitchcock; Auk, Vol. VII, No. 4, Oct., 1890, p. 407. 



4 Copeland ; in MS. 



' Kastman; Auk, Vol. XIV, No. 3, July, 1897, p. 327. 



6 Faxon; Auk, Vol. VII, No. 4, Oct., 1890, p. 409. 



7 Faxon ; in verbis. 



8 Browne ; Auk, Vol. I, No. 4, Oct., 1884, p. 389. 



