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281. Piranga erythromelas. Scarlet Tanager. 



Common summer resident. May 8 (Cold Spring Harbor) 

 to Oct. 12 (Fire Island Light). 



282. Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager. 



Rare casual visitor. A considerable number of records of 

 this species exist; also one instance of its probable breeding at 

 Long Island Citv (Hendrickson, May 16, 1883, Auk, i, 1884, 

 p. 290). Most instances of its occurrence, however, have been 

 at points on the eastern end of the island where its presence 

 was perhaps due to its survival from long flights over the sea, 

 where it had been driven by storms while migrating. The early 

 dates of its occurrence on the eastern end of Long Island are 

 about synchronous with its average spring appearance in Louisi- 

 ana and Florida (Auk, xix, 1902, p. 148). The following are 

 the records of occurrence; Sag Harbor, April 7, 1886, Bridg- 

 hampton, INIay 1, Merrick, May 14, 1886 (Auk, iii, 1886, p. 

 442) Manor, April, 1886, Promised Land, April 1886 (Ank, i, 

 1888, p. 181) Setauket, Apr. 11, 1901 {Aiik, xix, 1902, p. 291) 

 all by Mr. Butcher; Ditch Plain, Montauk, April 8, 1901, 

 (Braishn, Auk, xix, p. 147); Shelter Island, Apr. 9, 1902 

 (Worthington, Auk, xix, p. 402). The specimen obtained 

 April 8, 1901, was picked up, almost dead, on the beach by 

 Capt. J. G. Scott. Its stomach contained only a httle sand. 

 It is probable that some birds, exhausted by their struggles 

 to escape the sea succumb to hunger and cold even when their 

 attempts to reach land have succeeded. 



283. Progne subis. Purple Martin. 



Locally a common summer resident. April 2 (]Montauk) 

 to Sept. 17 (Lake Grove). 



284. Pe troche lidon lunifrons. Cliff Swallow. 



Rare summer resident. August 2 (Shinnecock) ; August 

 29 (Centre ■Moriches). Mr. AYorthington of Shelter Island in 

 1904 wrote me, "I can remember when about 50 pairs nested 



