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79. Eutlilypis canadensis Cabanis. (Myiodioctes 

 densis And.) Canada Fly catching Warbler. Common 

 spring and autumn visitant, frequenting all woody situa- 

 tions. Arrives May 12th to 20th, and stragglers are seen 

 till June 3d ; returns about the first week of September. 

 Has been found breeding at. Lynn, Mass., by George Wells. 

 (Dr. T. M. Brewer, Proc. B. 8. N. H., vol. vi., p. 4.) 



80. Setopliaga ruticilla Swain. Redstart. Very com- 

 mon in all wooded places during the greater part of May, 

 and for two or three weeks about September 1st. A very 

 few breed, but the greater part retire to the mountains or 

 northward. 



81. Pyranga rubra Vieill. Scarlet Tanager. Rather 

 common summer visitant, in high open woods, where it 

 breeds. Occasionally visits open fields, and have known 

 a pair nest in an apple tree, remote from any forest. Ar- 

 rives about May 15th, and leaves early in September. 

 Gathers its insect food almost wholly among the foliage of 

 the forest trees. 



82. Hirundo horreorum Barton. Barn Swallow. Very 

 abundant from about May 1st to September 1st. A few 

 usually seen the last week in April ; stragglers often seen 

 till the middle of September. One season knew some Barn 

 Swallows to take possession of the nest of a pair of Cliff 

 Swallows, placed as usual under the eaves of a barn, driv- 

 ing off the Cliff Swallows ; the next year they built a nest 

 themselves under the eaves, in place of the old one that 

 had fallen down. Have known Barn Swallows to attempt 

 to build in the same place since, but after persistent efforts 

 generally fail, and take to their old quarters inside the 

 barn. 



83. Hirundo lunifrons Say. Cliff Swallow. u Eave 

 Swallow." About equally common with the preceding ; 

 arrives commonly a few days later, and leaves a week ear- 

 lier. Nests under the eaves of buildings. 



84. Hirundo bicolor Vieill. White-bellied Swallow. 

 Not very common ; apparently least abundant of the 

 Swallows, while in some of the maritime parts of the State 

 it is the most abundant, arriving in numbers the second 

 week in April. 



85. Cotyle riparia Boie. Bank Swallow. Common, 



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