II^ BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS 



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

 summer resident." Brookline : " Abundant local summer resident."" 

 Cambridge: Abundant summer resident. Occasionally in winter. Cohas- 

 set : "Numerous." Dedham : "Common." Essex County: "Summer 

 visitant. Abundant.'" Ipswich: " Abundant summer resident." Spring- 

 field: " Common summer resident." Wintered 1900 'oi. Templeton : 

 " Abundant in summer." Wellesley : " Common summer resident." 



312. Scolecophagus carolinus (Mtill.). RUSTY GRACKLE. 

 A very common spring and autumn migrant. Occasionally in 



spring whjle with us this species is heard to sing its peculiar breed- 

 ing song. 



(February 8) February 20 to May 18 ; September 30 to Novem- 

 ber 25. 



Amherst: " Rare but regular migrant." Berkshire: " Transient visit- 

 ant in the spring and autumn, abundant in the autumn." Bristol County : 

 " Common 'transient visitant." Brookline: "Abundant spring and un- 

 common fall migrant." Cambridge : Very common transient visitant. 

 Cohasset : " Fairly common." Dedham : " Common migrant." Essex 

 County: "Spring and autumn. Common." Ipswich: " Rather common 

 transient visitant." Martha's Vineyard : " One instance." Springfield : 

 " Common spring and autumn visitor." Templeton: "Common tran- 

 sient visitor." Wellesley : "Common migrant." 



313. Icterus galbula (Linn.). BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 

 An abundant summer resident. 



(April) May i to September 6 (November 13, 15, l i8 2 ). 

 Amherst: '^Common summer resident." Berkshire: " Common sum- 

 mer resident of the low country." Bristol County : " Common summer 

 resident." Brookline :" Abundant summer resident." Cambridge: Very 

 common summer resident. Cohasset: "Abundant." Dedham: "Com- 

 mon." Essex County : " Summer visitant. .Common." Ipswich : 

 " Abundant summer visitant." Martha's Vineyard : " Rare summer resi- 

 dent." Springfield: '' Abundant summer resident." Templeton: "Abun- 

 dant summer resident." Templeton : " Abundant in summer." Welles- 

 ley : " Common summer resident." 



314. Icterus spurius (Linn.). ORCHARD ORIOLE. 

 A rare and irregular summer resident, except in t 



the western 



ilngalls; Auk, Vol. Ill, No. i, Jan., 1886, p. 135. 



2 Editor ; O. & O., Vol. XIII, No. 12 Dec., 1888, p. 191. 



