Il8 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS 



324. Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linn.) . ROSE-BREASTED GROS- 

 BEAK. 



A common summer resident, except on Cape Cod, where it is 

 apparently absent. This bird has steadily increased in numbers 

 in the State since about 1850. 



(April 26) May 2 to October 3. 



Amherst : "Uncommon migrant." Berkshire: "Fairly common 

 summer resident." Bristol County : " Common summer resident." 

 Brookline : "Common summer resident." Cambridge: Common 

 summer resident. Dedham : "Common." Essex County: "Summer 

 visitant." Formerly rare. Ipswich: "A few seen." Martha's Vine- 

 yard; "One instance." Springfield: "Common summer resident." 

 Templeton : " Rare summer resident." Wellesley : "Common summer 

 resident.' 1 



325. Cardinalis cardinalis (Linn.). CARDINAL GROSBEAK. 



Accidental from the south ; there is one instance of its breed- 

 ing, viz., at the Botanical Gardens, Cambridge, about I835. 1 It is 

 impossible to state what proportion of the males recorded from 

 Massachusetts were escaped cage-birds or actual stragglers : . the 

 single female recorded from Arlington, November i, 1889, by Dr. 

 Walter Faxon, was probably a straggler.' 2 



Amherst: Three or four instances. Brookline: One instance. Cam- 

 bridge : Casual. Two instances. Dedham : One instance. Springfield : 

 <; Accidental visitor." Wellesley: " Occasionally seen." 



326. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linn.). TOWHEE. 



A common summer resident, casual in winter, when it has been 

 observed at Bedford, 3 Brookline, 3 Jamaica Plain, 4 and Sandwich. 5 



(April 2) April 18 to October 22 (November 30); (Winter). 



Amherst: "Common summer resident." Berkshire: "Summer resi- 

 dent, not rare." Bristol County: "Very common summer resident." 

 Brookline: " Common summer resident." Winter. Cambridge: Com- 

 mon summer resident. Cohasset : " Very numerous in summer." Ded- 

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



1 Audubon ; Birds of America, Vol. Ill, 1860, p. 201. 



2 Morse ; Birds of Wellesley, 1897, p. 32. 



3 Howe; Auk, Vol. XIII, No. 3, July, 1896, pp. 178, and 260, 262. 



4 Howe ; Auk, Vol. XV, No. 2, Apr., 1898, p. 189. 



5 " Mergus " ; Forest & Stream, Vol. XXII, Mar. 6, 1884, P- 103. 



