72 

 Montgomery County, May 13 , 1338. Mr. Thomas H. Jackson has 

 a set of six eggs taken near Lancaster about 1870 by Chas. 

 Nauman, while Mr. Thayer has a nest and eggs taken in 1874 

 in Montgomery County from a currant bush by D. N. McCadden. 

 Mr. C. J. Pennock records them as nesting prior to 1875 in 

 Chester County in an Osage Orange hedge along the roadside. 



608. Piranga erythroraelas Vieill . Scarlet Tanager. 



In the vicinity of Philadelphia County, this 

 brilliantly colored species is rather uncommon and locally 

 distributed, tho breeding here as well as in practically 

 every county of the state. Along the Susquehanna Valley, 

 however, and in the Alleghanian fauna, it becomes one of the 

 common birds, while in some sections of the Canadian fauna, 

 it is one of the abundant forest birds. In the Carolinian 

 fauna of Green County, Mr Dickey finds it abundant. Much to 

 my surprise, I find it rarely in a large part of Huntingdon 

 and Center Counties. 



611. Progne subis subis ( Linn .). Purple Martin. 



This large, bluish Swallow, always conspicuous on 

 account of its striking colors and domestic habits, is local- 

 ly common thruout most of the counties lying within the 

 Carolinian and Alleghanian faunas, seeming to occur only 



