ANNOTATED LIST. 83 
J. H. Sage reports them breeding near Noyes’ Beach, and Mr. 
F. T. Jencks in June at Johnston.* 
May (16) to 20 (September 5 to 25). 
(264) 687. Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.). AMERICAN RED- 
START. — A common summer resident. 
May 1 to (October 5s). 
(265) 697. Anthus pensilvanicus (Lath.). AMERICAN 
Pipit. — A common migrant.T 
September 25 to October 16, March 29 to (May 15s). 
(267) 703. Mimus polyglottos (Linn.). MocxkIncBIRD. 
—A very rare summer resident. Mr. N. W. Thatcher took a 
bird in East Providence in 1877. Mr. Harry G. White reported 
one singing at Newport on November 2, 1888.1 Mr. F. T. 
Jencks observed one at Drownville, October 18, 1891,” and he 
has since seen two others there. Lt. Wirt Robinson writes that 
he saw one at Newport on November 5 and 12, 1889. ‘There 
was a pair in Roger Williams Park, Providence, in the autumn 
of 1897. How many of the Mockingbirds recorded are escaped 
cage birds it is impossible to state, the species no doubt occurs, 
however, in its wild state. ¢ 
(March) to November 2. 
(267) 704. Galeoscoptes carolinensis (Linn.). CarTBIRD. 
—An abundant summer resident. There is one very early 
record, March 19, 1897, at Bristol. The bird may have wintered.§ 
April 24 to October 2. 
(268) 705. Harporhynchus rufus (Linn.). Brown 
THRASHER. Brown Thrush.— A common summer. resident. 
* Osprey, Vol. III, No. 7, p. 11o. 
fi EGansey \VOl. SELVG NINO. 12) p.1225. 
NO; ce ©. Vols 13,cNo4125 pj 192. 
? Collector’s Monthly, Conn. Vol. 2, No. 12, p. 73. 
+ Coues and Stearns’s, New Eng. Bird Life, Part I, p. 62. 
§ F. & S., Vol. 6, No. 17, p. 266. 
