74 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 



ROW. — A common summer resident, somewhat locally distributed. 

 Very abundant during fall migration. 

 April 4 to November 14. 



(208) 585. Passerella iliaca (Merr.). Fox Sparrow. — 

 A common migrant. Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes " that one was 

 killed at Johnston May 21, 189 1," a late date. A bird wintered in 

 Cranston in 1899, near Mr. Hathaway's house.' 



March 19 to April 20, October 13 to November 14. 



(■209) 587. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linn.). Towhee. 

 Chewink. ■ — A common summer resident. Mr. W. W. Bull shot 

 a female at Newport on January 14, 1896. 



April 19 to October 13. 



(210) 595. Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linn.). Rose- 

 breasted Grosbeak. — A common summer resident in the north- 

 ern portions of the State, but rare in the southeastern portions. 



May s to October 2. 



(211) 598. Cyanospiza cyanea (Linn.). Indigo Bunt- 

 ing. Indigobird. — A common summer resident, like the fore- 

 going species, of the northern and western portions of the State, 

 absent or rare in the southeastern portions. 



(May 10) to (September 25). 



(212) 601. Cyanospiza ciris (Linn.) . Painted Bunting. 

 • — Nonpareil. An accidental visitant, or escaped cage bird. Mr. 



Daniel Seamans took one at Scituate in the summer of 1882.^ 



(2 13) 604. Spiza americana (Gmel.). Dickcissel. Black- 

 throated Bunting. — Lt. Wirt Robinson shot a young bird at 

 Newport, September 25, 1888. The bird, he writes, he shot by 

 mistake, when he was after some Bobolinks, in a cornfield on 



' Osprey, Vol. Ill, No. 7, p. iii. 

 '^ Ran Notes, Vol. II, No. 5, p. 8. 



