44 Faxon, Summer Birds of Berkshire County, Mass. | January 
2. Bonasa umbellus. Rurrep Grouse.—Common, especially on the 
mountain sides. 
3. Zenaidura macroura. MourniInG Dove.—Rather common. 
4. Circus hudsonius. MArsH Hawk.—Two seen. 
5. Buteo borealis. RED-TAILED HAwK.—Two seen. 
6. Falco peregrinus anatum. Duck HAwxK.—A pair established on 
Black Rock, a high cliffin the Taconic mountains, northwest of Isaac 
Spurr’s. 
7. Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. BLACK-BILLfFD CucKoo.—Not rare. 
8. Ceryle alcyon. BreLtTep KINGFISHER.—Three or four seen. 
g. Dryobates pubescens. DowNy WoopPpECKER.— One seen, in the 
village of Sheffield. : 
10. Colaptes auratus. GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER.—Common. 
tr. Antrostomus vociferus. WHIP-POoOR-WILL.—Common. 
12. Chordeiles virginianus. NIGHTHAWK.—Common. 
13. Cheetura pelagica. CHIMNEY SwiFr.—Common. 
14. Trochilus colubris. RuByY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD. —Two or 
three seen. 
15. Tyrannus tyrannus. KINGBIRD.—Common. 
16. Myiarchus crinitus. CRESTED FLYCATCHER.—NOt rare. 
17. Sayornis phebe. PrEwrr.—Abundant. 
18. Contopus virens. Woop PEwrerE.—Abundant. 
19. Empidonax pusillus traillii, TRAILL’s FLYCATCHER. — Three or 
four seen in alders near water-courses. 
20. Empidonax minimus. Lrast FLycaTcHER.—Abundant. 
21. Cyanocitta cristata. BLurEJAy. Rather common. 
22. Corvus americanus. AMERICAN CrRow.—Common. 
3. Dolichonyx oryzivorus. BoBoLink.—Abundant. 
4. Molothrus ater. Cowsirp.—Not uncommon. 
25. Agelaius pheniceus. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD.—Common. 
6. Sturnella magna. MEADOWLARK.—Not rare in the interval mea- 
dows of Sheeffild. 
27. Icterus spurius. OrCHAkD OrIOLE.—Three or four, in full song, 
in Sheffield. A male, in second-year plumage, seen in Pittsfield, June 27. 
28. Icterus galbula. BALTIMORE ORIOLE.—Common. 
29. Quiscalus quiscula (zneus?). Crow BLAcKBIRD.—Not uncommon 
The impropriety of using a gun in the places where I saw the Crow 
Blackbirds prevented a positive determination of the subspecies. 
30. Carpodacus purpureus. PurRPLE FiINcH.—Common. 
31. Spinus tristis. AMERICAN GOLDFINCH.—Common. 
32. Poocetes gramineus. BAy-wINGED SPARROW.—Common, 
33. Ammodramus sandwichensis savanna.—SAVANNA SPARROW.— 
Abundant. 
34. Ammodramus savannarum passerinus. GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. 
—Common. 
35. Ammodramus henslowi. HENSLOw’s SPARROW.—Two pairs ina 
low, wet piece of ground in Sheffield. They were not shy. The males 
sometimes sang in the grass and sedge, wholly out of view, at other times 
