ANNOTATED LIST. 83 



J. H. Sage reports them breeding near Noyes ' Beach, and Mr. 

 F. T. Jencks in June at Johnston.* 

 May (16) to 20 (September 5 to 25). 



(264) 687. Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.). American Red- 

 start. — A common summer resident. 



May I to (October 5). 



(265) 697. Anthus pensilvanicus (Lath.). American 

 Pipit. — A common migrant.f 



September 25 to October 16, March 29 to (May 15). 



(267) 703. Mimus polyglottos (Linn.). Mockingbird. 



— A very rare summer resident. Mr. N. W. Thatcher took a 

 bird in East Providence in 1877. Mr. Harry G. White reported 

 one singing at Newport on November 2, 1888.1 ^r. F. T. 

 Jencks observed one at Drownville, October 18, 1891,^ and he 

 has since seen two others there. Lt. Wirt Robinson writes that 

 he saw one at Newport on November 5 and 12, 1889. There 

 was a pair in Roger Williams Park, Providence, in the autumn 

 of 1897. How many of the Mockingbirds recorded are escaped 

 cage birds it is impossible to state, the species no doubt occurs, 

 however, in its wild state, t 



(March) to November 2. 



(267) 704. Galeoscoptes carolinensis (Linn.). Catbird. 



— An abundant summer resident. There is one very early 

 record, March 19, 1897, at Bristol. The bird may have wintered. § 



April 24 to October 2. 



(268) 705. Harporhynchus rufus (Linn.). Brown 

 Thrasher. Brown Thrush. — A common summer resident. 



*Osprey, Vol. Ill, No. 7, p. no. 



tF. & S., Vol. XXIV, No. 12, p. 225. 



* O. & O., Vol. 13, No. 12, p. 192. 



^Collector's Monthly, Conn. Vol. 2, No. 12, p. 73. 



t Coues and Stearns's, New Eng. Bird Life, Part I, p. 62. 



§ F. & S., Vol. 6, No. 17, p. 266. 



