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THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 



ROW. A common summer resident, somewhat locally distributed. 

 Very abundant during fall migration. 

 April 4 to November 14. 



(208) 585. Passerella iliaca (Merr.). Fox SPARROW. 

 A common migrant. Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes " that one was 

 killed at Johnston May 21, 1891," a late date. A bird wintered in 

 Cranston in 1899, near Mr. Hathaway's house. 1 



March 19 to April 20, October 13 to November 14. 



(209) 587. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linn.). TOWHEE. 

 Chewink. A common summer resident. Mr. W. W. Bull shot 

 a female at Newport on January 14, 1896. 



April 19 to October 13. 



(210) 595. Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linn.). ROSE- 

 BREASTED GROSBEAK. A common summer resident in the north- 

 ern portions of the State, but rare in the southeastern portions. 



May 5 to October 2. 



(211) 598. Cyanospiza cyanea (Linn.). INDIGO BUNT- 

 ING. Indigobird. A common summer resident, like the fore- 

 going species, of the northern and western portions of the State, 

 absent or rare in the southeastern portions. 



(May 10) to (September 25). 



(212) 601. Cyanospiza ciris (Linn.). PAINTED BUNTING. 

 Nonpareil. An accidental visitant, or escaped cage bird. Mr. 

 Daniel Seamans took one at Scituate in the summer of 1882. 2 



(213) 604. Spiza americana (Gmel.). DICKCISSEL. Black- 

 throated Bunting. Lt. Wirt Robinson shot a young bird at 

 Newport, September 25, 1888. The bird, he writes, he shot by 

 mistake, when he was after some Bobolinks, in a cornfield on 



1 Osprey, Vol. Ill, No. 7, p. in. 



2 Ran Notes, Vol. II, No. 5, p. 8. 



