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the valley and on the Highland. Several are usually heard and 

 seen along the road through Randolph and up on the shoulder 

 of Mt. Madison, also along the Jefferson Notch road. The song 

 continues to late July and is occasionally heard in the early 

 days of August. On July i6, 1901, one of the male birds on 

 Boy Mountain proved to be an orange-plumaged bird. A scar- 

 let male was in sight at the same time. 



Some seasons a single bird in winter plumage has been 

 noted in late September, but the species usually drops out of 

 sight earlier. In 1904, however, there was a remarkable linger- 

 ing of an individual, that of a male bird in winter plumage, 

 which came daily to the woodbine berries on the vine upon our 

 piazza from October 7 to 12. Many times each day members of 

 the family saw this bird come from nearby woodland and satisfy 

 himself. On October 4 of the same year one had been seen 

 four miles away on Jefferson Hill. The only other October 

 record is of a bird on the Highland on the 3d day in igo8. 



128. Progne subis subis. Purpi^e Martin. 



A few colonies regularly breed in the village of Lancaster, 

 and the species has been noted in Whitefield village and in the 

 city of Berlin. I have observed year by year three or four 

 colonies in Lancaster occupying bird-houses erected for their 

 use. Two of these colonies consist of several pairs. Once only 

 during the period of my observation has a pair occupied a house 

 in Jefferson. I recall that in a summer preceding 1899 I saw 

 the birds going in and out of a bird-house in a yard not far from 

 the Waumbek Hotel. In one of the bird-houses in Lancaster I 

 observe the Martins and the House Sparrows apparently amica- 

 bly occupying the premises together, although making use of 

 different apartments. 



The birds have generally disappeared by the middle of 

 August or even earlier. One seen at the Meadows on August 

 16, 1902, was probably a migrating bird. Two seen on July 28, 

 1908, over Cherry Pond were likely also to have been birds in 



