ANNOTATED LIST. 



75 



Peckham's place. It was perched on a corn tassel. Dr. W. C. 

 Rives now has the skin. This is the only record for this species.i 



(214) 608. Piranga erythromelas Vieill. Scarlet Tan- 

 AGER. — A common summer resident of all but the southeastern 

 portions of the State, where it is uncommon. A male, in full 

 spring plumage, was taken at Apponaug on April 4, 189 1.® 



May 4 to October 9. 



(215) 610. Piranga rubra (Linn.). Summer Tanager. 

 Mr. Newton Dexter reports two seen in Providence, and one was 

 taken on the Ten Mile River by Mr. C. M. Carpenter,' now in 

 the Smith collection. 



(216) 611. Progne subis (Linn.). Purple Martin. — 

 An uncommon summer resident, and common migrant. Formerly 

 much more abundant.* 



April 25 to September 16. 



(217) 612. Petrochelidon lunifrons (Say). Cliff Swal- 

 low. Eave Swallow. — An uncommon summer resident, becom- 

 ing rarer each year. 



(May) to August 28. 



(218) 613. Hirundo erythrogastra (Bodd.). Barn 

 Swallow. — An abundant summer resident. Mr. T. M. Brewer 

 in an article entitled " Sea-side Ornithology" published in 1870, 

 writes " yet we can remember when the rocks of Newport and 

 Nahant were their primitive breeding ground."^ At the present 



' Auk, Vol. VI, No. 2, p. 194. 

 Note: There was a South American Finch {Gubernalrix cristatella) taken 

 near Providence by Rev. C. H. Baggs on July 7, 1880. Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, 

 Vol. V,No. 4, p. 240. Coues and Stearns's New Eng. Bird Life, Part I, p. 29.. 



2 O. & O., Vol. 16, No. 5, p. 78. 



3 Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 21. 



Birds of Conn. Merriam, Trans. Conn. Acad. Vol. IV, p. 21. 

 Coues and Stearns's, New Eng. Bird Life, Part I, p. 180. 

 • F. & S., Vol. 6, No. 17, p. 266. 

 'Am. Nat., Vol. Ill, No. 4, p. 228. 



