AVES. 139 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



ICTERIDAE. 



Open country, swamps, and marshes; nests in marsh grass or 

 in bushes near water. 



Me. — Common migrant and local summer resident. Mar. 13- 

 Oct. 13 (Nov. 9). Eggs, June 1-July 1. 



N. H. — Common migrant and local summer resident in valleys; 

 accidental in winter (Warren). Mar. 3-Nov; 11 (winter). 



Vt. — Common migrant and summer resident. Mar. 2-Oct. 



Mass. — Common migrant and summer resident, wintering rarely 

 in south and east. (Feb. 26) Mar. 6-Oct. 20 (Nov. 28) (winter). 

 Eggs, May 10-June 18. 



R. I. — Common migrant and summer resident; casual in winter. 

 Mar. 7-Oct. 19 (Dec. 15, Feb. 10-13). Eggs, May 12- June 16. 



Conn. — Common migrant and summer resident; rare winter 

 resident. Mar. 4-Oct. (winter). Eggs, May 30- June 6. 



262. Agelaius phoeniceus fortis Ridgway. 

 Thick-billed redwing; Northern redwing. 



Ridgway, Proc. Washington acad. sci., 1901, vol. 3, p. 153. 

 "Omaha, Nebraska." 



Marshes and open country; nests among reeds or bushes. 



Conn. — ^Rare fall migrant and winter resident: North Haven, 

 Nov. 11, 1903, Dec. 25, 1901, Jan. 10, 1902 (Bishop). 



263. Sturnella magna (Linne) Swainson. 

 Meadowlark; Marsh quail; Old-field lark. 



Chapman, Handb. birds east. No. Amer., 1895, p. 265; Bird- 

 life, 1898, pi. 39. Egg, Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 6, figs. 20, 21. 



Alauda magna Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 167. 

 "in America, Africa." 



Open fields and marshes; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Rare migrant and local summer resident in southern 



