298 Memoirs of the nuttall ornithological club. 



Cambridge, usually at their seasons of migration ; within the past decade I have 

 thrice noted them in our garden and Miss Bertha T. Parker tells me that they 

 are seen occasionally in Norton's Woods. 



179. Piranga rubra (Linn.). 

 Summer Tanager. Summer Redbird. 



Casual visitor ; only one record. 



Mr. John Cullen of Watertown has a Summer Tanager which was killed in 

 that town about June i, 1896, by Mr. Albert W. Perkins. Mr. C. J. Maynard, 

 who has examined the bird, tells me that it is an immature male. I know of 

 no other instance of the appearance of the species in the Cambridge Region, 

 although it has been repeatedly taken elsewhere in eastern Massachusetts, prob- 

 ably occurring there merely as a chance wanderer from its summer home in the 

 Southern and Middle States. 



180. Progne subis (Linn.). 

 Purple Martin. 



Formerly a locally common summer resident. Much reduced in numbers during recent 

 Cears, and practically if not absolutely extirpated as a breeding bird in June, 1903. 



seasonal occurrence. 



April 14, 1891, one male seen at breeding box, Lexington, W. Faxon. 



April 20 — August 25. 

 September 13, 1890, one ad. male seen, Waverley, W. Faxon. 



NESTING dates. 

 May 30 — June 8. 



Nuttall, writing of the Purple Martin in 1832,1 says that "in the maritime 

 parts of Massachusetts, and probably throughout the state, a few years ago, 



1 T. Nuttall, Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada. The Land Birds, 

 1832, 599. 



