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MIGRATION RECORD. 



187. [608] Piranya m/th'-omelax Vieill. Scarlet Tariager.* 



Common migrant. Moderately common summer resident (B. W. E. ? 

 '87). April 22 to September 19. Song and mating April 29, 1903. 

 Usually the males arrive before the females, sometimes as much as a 

 week in advance. They arrive at the same time, however, in some years- 

 B. W. EVermann says that this species was moderately common here in 

 the spring of 1881. Six were seen on one morning in May. lie says that 

 this was the farthest north it had been reported in the State up to that 

 time. 



MIGRATION RECORD. 



