Birds. 69 



187. Zamelodia ludoviciana. 



ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 



.A. rather common sum.mer resident. Breeds. Arrives May 

 II to May 29. 



188. Guiraca caerulea caerulea. 



BLITE GROSBEAK. 



Some time between 1862 and 1865 I saw a pair of Blue 

 Grosbeaks on the Henry Wood farm at the foot of Dry Hill, 

 Litchfield, Herkimer County. On account of my youth and 

 the fact that I did not take the birds, I never published this 

 record. During August, 1910, the Rev. J. B. Wicks of Paris 

 Hill, in an article in the Utica Observer, stated that he had 

 seen one of these birds near his residence. Paris Hill is about 

 six miles from Dry Hill in an air line and about the same 

 elevation. In reply to a letter he writes as follows : "About 

 the middle of July, 1910, the fellow came to me, making two 

 brief visits, both the same day. I was sitting on the porch and 

 the flutter of wings attracted my attention, and there on the 

 railing sat the bird, almost in reach of my hand. He stayed 

 long enough so that I noted the color, bill, etc. He tallied 

 exactly with the book description. Neither visit was more 

 than iwo or three minutes long, the second being in the apple 

 tree, ten yards from the house. It is about forty years ago 

 that I saw one of these birds near the roadside in the Bridge- 

 water swamp. It was late in the fall." In his newspaper 

 article he speaks of the fact that he knew these birds durihg his 

 rciiidence in Oklahoma. How could he be mistaken in such a 

 marked bird? 



i8g. Passerina cyanea. 



INDIGO BUNTING. 

 A common summer resident. .Breeds. Arrives May 14 to 25. 



