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320. Calamospiza melanocorys Stejn. Lark Bunting. 



Accidental from the west. There is but one record : Zynn, a 

 male shot by Mr. N. Vickary, December 5, 1877.1 This speci- 

 men is now in the mounted collection of the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology. 



321. Spiza americana (Gmel.). Black-throated Bunting. 

 Formerly an uncommon summer resident along the coast and 



in the western valley bottoms until about 1850. Since then it has 

 been recorded from Berkshire, 1858, Holyoke, 1866, Newtonville, 

 1867, West Newbury, 1873, Medford, 1877, Hyde Park, 1878, 

 Readville, 1879, and the most recent records are : Worcester Count\\ 

 one taken by I. G. Greene, October 3, 1889 ;''■ and Highland Light 

 on Cape Cod, an immature male shot September 30, 1889.3 



322. Passerina cyanea (Linn.). Indigo-bird. 



A common summer resident, except on Cape Cod, where it is 

 said to be unknown. 



May 9 to October 29. 



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

 suminei- resident." Bristol County: "Not common summer resident." 

 Brookline : " Common summer resident." Cambridge : Rather com- 

 mon summer resident. Dedham : "Rather common." Essex County : 

 "Summer visitant. Common." Ipswich " Xot common summer 

 resident." Springfield: "Common summer resident." Templeton: 

 "Common summer resident." Wellesley : " Rather common, but some- 

 what local summer resident." 



323. Guiraca caerulea (Linn.). Blue Grosbeak. 



Accidental visitant from the south. Peabody in his 1839 Re- 

 port, mentions that one was " unquestionably seen " by a friend. 

 The only definite record is: Brookline, one was shot on May 29, 

 1880, by Mr. Gordon Plummer.'' 



1 Allen ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. Ill, No. i, Jan., 1878, p. , 

 "Greene; O. & O., Vol. XIV, No. ii, Nov., 1889, p. 174. 

 " Miller ; Auk, Vol. VII, No. 3, July, 1890, p. 229. 

 * Allen; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. V, No. 3, July, 1880, p. 18 



