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’80, at Back River. At that time they were quite common, and 
no special attention was paid to them. 
Family Tanacrip#—Tanagers. 
Piranga erythromelas (608). Scarlet Tanager. 
Summer resident ; generally dispersed, but local and not very 
common. Noted from May 4 (’92, Resler) to October 7 (93, 
Pleasants). At Washington “from April 25 (’95) to October 
7 (88, W. T. Roberts)” (Richmond). 
Nests with eggs are noted from June 2 (’88, J. H. Fisher, 
Jr.) to July 18 (93, Pleasants), while in Howard County three 
fresh eggs were collected on August 1 (’92, Resler). Sets are 
2 of 3 and 8 of 4. 
Only a single pair at Vale Summit, June 8, ’95. 
Piranga rubra (610). Summer Tanager. 
Summer resident ; about as numerous as the last species, noted 
at Washington from April 28 (’94, Richmond) and at Balti- 
more from April 30 (’93, Blogg) to September 12 (’93, Gray). 
Eggs are recorded from June 7 (’93, Wholey) to July 10 (’93, 
Bloggs). Sets are 4 of 3 and 1 of 4. 
In ’90-1-2, Scarlet Tanagers occupied a piece of open woods 
back of our house in Dulaney’s Valley; in ’93, there were no 
Scarlet Tanagers, but several pairs of Summer Tanagers; in 
94, no Tanagers appeared; but this year (’95), four or five 
pairs of both species spent the summer, some of them nesting 
quite close to the house. Both species have been more numer- 
ous this year than I have known them before. 
Family HirunpInipz—Swallows. 
Progne subis (611). Purple Martin. 
Common summer resident. First noted in Kent County on 
March 30 (’95, Fisher), and in Baltimore County from April 2 
(93) to October 15 (’93). In spring they are generally first 
observed at the bird boxes, these they leave as soon as the young 
