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following: ''Mr, Theodore Roosevelt shot a male at Oyster 

 Bay, Long Island on December 30, 1874" (Zerega, Bull. N. 

 0. C, V, 1880, p. 205). Mr. William Butcher has compiled 

 a number of winter records for Long Island and adjacent terri- 

 tory {Trans. Linn. Soc. N. Y., vol. i, 1882, pp. 107 to 111). 

 Nests from May 1 (?) to the middle of June. 



231. Sturnus vulgaris. European Starling. 



An introduced foreign species, now locally, a common per- 

 manent resident from Brooklyn easterly to Hicksville (Brais- 

 lin. Auk, xxi, 1904, p. 289). They nest in church spires, 

 towers and tops of tall buildings in Brooklyn. Ten years ago 

 a large colony nested in a huge bird-box, which was evidently 

 provided for the purpose, placed in a tall tree, near Kensing- 

 ton station. South Brooklyn. 



232. Dolichonyx oryzivonis. Bobolink. 



Common summer resident, especially on the upland grass- 

 fields of the north side of the island. It is now of rare occur- 

 rence on the salt-meadows of the south side of the island. 

 May 12 (Flatbush) to Oct. 10 (Rockaway). 



233. Molothrus ater. Cowbird. 



Abundant summer resident. March 15 (Parkville) to Nov. 

 5 (Parkville). Occasionally occurs in winter. Two males 

 were sent to me from East Quogue, Feb. 1, 1897. 



234. Agelaius phoeniceus'. Red-winged Blackbird. 

 Common summer resident, locally abundant. February 25 



(Montauk) to Nov. 6 (Flatbush). At Montauk, it is the most 

 constantly present and conspicuous bird in the landscape; here, 

 but never elsewhere, it has been seen by the writer chasing the 

 Fish Hawk, after the manner of the Kingbird, from whom, 

 likely, it has learned the habit. Nests in both May and June 

 and perhaps later. 



235. Sturnella magna. Meadow Lark. 



Common summer resident; March 7 (Rockaway) to Dec. 25 



