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334. Graleoscoptes carolinensis (Ivinn.). Catbird. 



A rather common summer resident of the Transition areas, 

 following the valleys up to the outskirts of the White Moun- 

 tains and reaching the lower country to the north of that range, 

 as at Jefferson where it occurs sparingly. At Intervale, a few 

 pairs are annually to be found in the river bottom, or rarely on 

 the sides of the valley up to 500 or 600 feet. I know of one pair, 

 presumably the same birds, which has nested for at least three 

 or four consecutive years in the same isolated clump of bushes 

 by a brook on the edge of our meadows. These birds, which I 

 used often to watch, were frequently found to be active until it 

 was quite dusk and after most of the other diurnal species had 

 quieted down for the night. Mr. Bradford Torrey has observed 

 this bird in Franconia up to Oct. 5, and a Mr. D. ly. Oliver 

 ( : 02 ) records one observed at Concord so late as the 3d of De- 

 cember, 1901. 



Dates: May 6 to October 5 (December 3). 



234. Toxostoma rufum (Linn.). Brown Thrasher. 

 A summer resident within the Transition areas. In south- 

 eastern New Hampshire it is not uncommon but elsewhere it is 

 found in less numbers following the river bottoms up into the 

 White Mountain valleys. At Intervale, I have usually found 

 two or three pairs each year in the fringe of vines and bushes 

 on the banks of the Saco River. In a considerable stretch of 

 rolling sandy country grown up to bear oak and grey birches in 

 the vicinity of West Ossipee and Tamworth, these birds are 

 fairly common, haunting the thickets with the Towhees. To 

 the north of the White Mountains, I am not certainly aware of 

 the presence of this bird, nor does Mr. F. B. Spaulding include 

 it in a manuscript list of birds seen by him at I^ancaster. Dr. 

 W. Faxon has noted it at Warren. 



Dates : April 16 to September. 



235. Thryotliorus ludovicianus (Lath.). Caroi^ina 

 Wren. 



An accidental visitant from the south, having been once re- 

 corded at Rye Beach, where Mr. H. M. Spelman ('8ia) on 



