Annotatkd List of Species ioi 



274. \Ai'ilsonia mitrata (Gmel.). Hooded Warbler. 



A rare or accidental summer visitant, perhaps rarely breeding. 

 Mr. J. B. Grimes reports it as formerly observed in the breeding 

 season near Pittsfield.^ The records are : Brookline, one taken' 

 June 25, 1879, by Wm. Adair ;^ Provincetown, a male taken on 

 June 25, i888, by Harry C. Whorf ; 3 Taunton, two birds noted on 

 May 8, 1888, by Mr. B.'A. Scudder ; ^ Framingham, a male taken 

 in a barn on October 15, 1893." 



275. Icteria virens (Linn.). Yellow-breasted Chat. 



A very rare summer resident, except locally, and in the valleys 

 of Berkshire County where it is not rare in summer. 



Amherst: "One instance." Berkshire: "A not rare summer resi- 

 dent." Bristol County: "Rare summer resident." Brookline : One 

 record. Cambridge: Rather rare summer resident. Cohasset : "One 

 instance." Dedham : Recorded. Essex County : " Summer visitant. 

 Rare." [Now locally common.] Springfield; " Rare, but regular summer 

 resident." Templeton : [One instance, Winchendon. — Brewster.] Welles- 

 ley; "Rare local, summer resident." 



276. Geothlypis trichas brachidactyla (Swains.). Mary- 

 land Yellow-throat. 



An abundant summer resident, occasional in winter, having 

 been twice observed at Fresh Pond, Cambridge, on January 13 

 1890° and once in December,' and at Framingham in January, 1884.' 



April 30 to October 21 (November 27); (Winter). 



Amherst; "Abundant summer resident." Berkshire: "Common 

 summer resident. Bristol County; " Very common summer resident.'" 

 Brookline; "Common summer resident." Cambridge: Abundant 

 summer resident. Cohasset: "Abundant in summer." Dedham; 

 "Very coifimon." Essex County; "Summer visitant. Abundant." 

 Ipswich: "Abundant summer resident." Martha's Vineyard: "Com- 

 mon summer resident." Springfield; "Abundant summer resident.'' 



1 Faxon and Hoffmann; Birds of Berkshire, 1900, pp. 126, 127, pp. 20, 21 

 of separate. 



•'Deane ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. V, No. 2, Apr.', 1880, pp. 117, 118. 



^Hitchcock; Auk, Vol. VII, No. 4, Oct., 1890, p. 407. 



< Copeland ; in MS. 



° Eastman; Auk, Vol. XIV, No. 3, July, 1897, p. 327. 



" Faxon ; Auk, Vol. VII, No. 4, Oct., 1890, p. 409. 



' Faxon ; in verbis. 



* Browne; Auk, Vol. I, No. 4, Oct., 1884, p. 389. 



