204 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



MNIOTILTIDAE. 



Conn. — Common migrant and rare local summer resident 

 (Portland). (May 6) May 12-fall. Eggs, May 30. 



373. Setophaga ruticilla (Linne) Swainson. 

 American redstart. 



Chapman, Warblers No. Amer., 1907, p. 287, pi. 23, fig. 1-3. 

 Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 6, fig. 5. 



Motacilla ruticilla Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 186. 

 "America." 



Orchards, shade and forest trees; nests in trees. 



Me. — Common migrant and summer resident. May 4-Oct. 1 

 (Oct. 13). Eggs, June 2-30. 



N. H. — Common migrant and summer resident below 3000 ft. 

 May 4-Oct. 5. Eggs, May 30-June 13. 



Vt. — Common migrant and summer resident. May 8-fall. 



Mass. — Common migrant and summer resident. (April 13, 

 23, 30) May 4-Oct. 12 (Nov. 1, 1908, Arnold arboretum). Eggs, 

 May 29- June 21. 



R. I. — Common migrant and summer resident. May 1-Sept. 8. 

 Eggs, June 1-13. 



Conn. — Common migrant and summer resident. May 3- 

 Oct. 16 (Oct. 26). Eggs, May 20- June 27. 



MOTACILLIDAE. 



374. Anthus rubescens (Tunstall) K. O. U. comm. 

 American pipit; Brown lark; Titlark; Wagtail. 



Alavda rubescens Tunstall, Ornith. Britannica, 1771, p. 2. 

 No locality; based on Red lark from London and North America 

 (Jide Oberholser). 



Anthus pensilvanicus (Lath.). Ridgway, Bull. 50, U. S. nat. 

 mus., 1904, pt. 3, p. 12. 



Anthus pipiens Audubon, Ornith. biogr., 1832, vol. 1, pi. 80. 



