196 FAIMA OF XEW EXGL.lXD. 



PASSERES. C^CiyES. 



lMraOTILTID-\E.. 



Swamps, edges of woods, or open counrry; nesis on or near the 

 ground. 



]Me. — Common spring and uncommon fall migranr and local 

 summer resident. April 11-May 20; summer: Sept. 17-Oct. 20 

 (Oct. 27, Xov. 2 . Eggs, May 27-.Jime 26. 



X. H. — Common spring and imcommon faU migrant. April 13— 

 May 11; Sept. 16-Oct. 9. 



Vt. — Uncommon migrant. 



IVIass. — Common spring and uncommon faU migrant: said to 

 have wintered. CMar. 2S, 1908, Hyde Park: April 5) April 1-3- 

 May 21; Sept. .>-Oct. 26. 



R. I. — Common spring and imcommon faU migrant. April o- 

 22; Sept. l.>-26. 



CoNM. — Common spring and uncommon fall migrant. April 9- 

 May 5; Oct. 18-Xov. 4. 



360. Dendeoica discolor iTieiUotj Baird. 

 Prairie warbler. 



Chapman, Handb. birds east. Xo. Amer., 1895, p. 364. Egg, 

 Capen, 1886, pi. 5, fig. 1. 



Sylvia discolor VieUl., Hist. nat. ois. Amer. Sept., 1807, vol. 2, 

 p. 37, pi. 98. "Etat5-Uxi.s et le.s graxd.s iles Axtilles." 



Sylvicola discolor (MeiU.). Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1841, 

 vol. 2, p. 68, pi. 97. 



Dry bush-grown fields and sproutlands; nests in bushes. 



X. H. — Ptare local sununer resident in southern pari: (HoUis, 

 Manchester). 



Yt. — Accidental visitor : Uxbridge, Dec. 4, 1SS4. 



!Mass. — Uncommon summer resident, mainly near coast; acci- 

 dental in winter fSouth Yarmouth, .Jan. 2, 1909). May 2-.Sept. 

 2-5 Man. 2). Eggs, May 2S-Jime 18. 



Pl. I. — Common local summer resident. May 4-Sept. Dec. 

 4, 1884, Providence). Eggs, ISIay 27-.June 14. 



