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birds have been seen or heard between the loth and the i6th of 

 September. In 1906, however, a bird or two birds were noted 

 almost daily up to October 2. 



126. Passerina cyanea. Indigo Bunting. 



A rather common summer resident. The song is heard at 

 various points on the Highland and along the road through 

 Randolph, also on other hill and mountain sides, coming from 

 wood borders and clearings. Several seasons a nesting has 

 been carried through in our blackberry row, the male bird often 

 singing from our stable roof and from the apex of its ventilator. 

 In 1907 a nest was built in a small clump of wild raspberry 

 canes by an open spring. On June 30 it held three eggs, but 

 winds so swayed the canes as to tip the nest and spill out the 

 eggs, and the nest was deserted. A similar mishap overtook 

 another nest built at the same time in the row of blackberries and 

 holding &ggi. Both males sang freely throughout the season. 

 In 1901, on August 4, a female bird was seen with a miller in 

 her bill, flying to her young, thus indicating without doubt a 

 second nesting. In 19 10 a nest was again built in the row of 

 blackberries and two young were reared, and this was likewise 

 a second nesting in all probability, the birds having moved up 

 from lower down on the mountain side, where the male had 

 previously sung. The young were a few days old on July 26. 

 The song period extends usually well into August, and the 

 song is heard intermittently in some seasons to almost the end 

 of the month. The last birds usually remain to the middle or 

 end of September, when a family of half a dozen may sometimes 

 be noted, all in brown plumage. 



127. Piranga erythromelas. Scari^et Tanager. 



A not uncommon summer resident of the woodlands of the 

 lower mountains to an altitude of 2000 to 2200 feet. Three or 

 four singing males have been recorded each season high on the 

 sides of Boy Mountain, and two or three others in the woods of 



