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last of the spring migrants pass through the White Mountains 

 by April 23 or thereabouts, and appear again on their south- 

 ward flight in early October. 



Dates : March 16 to April 23 ; October 5 to November 7. 



186. Pipilo erytliroplithalnius (Ivinn). Towhee. 



A not uncommon summer resident of the Transition valleys 

 in the southern parts of the state becoming rarer and local to- 

 wards the White Mountains, to the north of which it appears 

 not to occur. In the lower Connecticut valley this bird is fairly 

 common, and is found also in some numbers throughout the cen- 

 tral and southern regions of the state in open bushy lands. 

 North of Ivake Winnepesaukee it occurs in bushy, sandy areas 

 in the lowlands. Mr. E. A. Preble finds it about Ossipee among 

 the sandy " barrens " grown up to bear oak and pitch pine, and 

 I have found it in small numbers in a few similar localites in 

 that vicinity and as far up as North Conway in the Saco valley. 

 Dr. Walter Faxon tells me also of a bird seen by him on June 

 17, 1894, near Moosilauke. At Intervale, I have seen the bird 

 but once, when on Sept. 19, 1899, a migrant appeared on the 

 edge of the Saco meadows in the early morning. 



Dates : May i to October. 



187. Zamelodia ludoviciana (lyinn.). Rose-breast- 

 ed Grosbeak. 



An uncommon summer resident of the Transition area, enter- 

 ing also to a less extent the sub-Canadian region. A few sum- 

 mer regularly in the White Mountain valleys at least as far up 

 as Intervale, though I have found them more common there in 

 August or September during migration. Mr. G. H. Thayer 

 notes their fondness for potato beetles at Dublin. 



Dates : May 12 to September 18. 



Note: Guiraca caerulea (Linn.). BTvUE Grosbeak. 



Miss Mabel C. Berry ('96) records having observed at close range, on 

 May 26, 1894, an adult male of this species at East Derry. The bird was 

 not secured, though the observer felt certain of the identity. It seems 

 safer, however, to await a more positive record before according the bird 

 a place in the list of New Hampshire birds. 



