ANNOTATED; LIST. 75 
Peckham’s place. It was perched on acorn tassel. Dr. W.C. 
Rives now has the skin. This is the only record for this species.} 
(214) 608. Piranga erythromelas Vieill. Scar.ter Tan- 
AGER. — A common summer resident of all but the southeastern 
portions of the State, where it is uncommon. A male, in full 
spring plumage, was taken at Apponaug on April 4, 1891.” 
May 4 to October g. 
(215) 610. Piranga rubra (Linn.). SumMMER TANAGER. 
Mr. Newton Dexter reports two seen in Providence, and one was 
taken on the Ten Mile River by Mr. C. M. Carpenter,? now in 
the Smith collection. 
(216) 611. Progne subis (Linn.). Purple Martin. — 
An uncommon summer resident, and common migrant. Formerly 
much more abundant.* 
April 25 to September 16. 
(217) 612. Petrochelidon lunifrons (Say). CLirr SwaL- 
Low. ave Swallow.— An uncommon summer resident, becom- 
ing rarer each year. 
(May) to August 28. 
A 
(218) 613. Hirundo erythrogastra (Bodd.). Barn 
SwaLLow. — An abundant summer resident. Mr. T. M. Brewer 
in an article entitled “ Sea-side Ornithology” published in 1870, 
writes ‘‘ yet we can remember when the rocks of Newport and 
Nahant were their primitive breeding ground.”* At the present 
PEATE Viol. Vil. NiO. 2, petod. 
Nore: There was a South American Finch (Gubernatrix cristatella) taken 
near Providence by Rev. C. H. Baggs on July 7, 1880. Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, 
Vol. V, No. 4, p. 240. Coues and Stearns’s New Eng. Bird Life, Part I, p. 29. 
22 OR 8 Onn VOl. EO; NOs 5; pai7Oe 
2 Bulls Nut Or. Club,.Voly ily No. r, p. 21- 
Birds of Conn. Merriam, Trans. Conn, Acad. Vol. IV, p. 21. 
Coues and Stearns’s, New Eng. Bird Life, Part I, p. 180. 
Bde ies) VOlyG, INO: 575 p.820b, 
“Am. Nat., Vol. III, No. 4, p. 228. 
