SUPPLEMENT TO BIRDS OF ESSEX COUNTY 169 



303 [686] Wilsonia canadensis (Linn.). 



Canadian Wakbler. 

 Common transient visitor, rare summer resident. May 16 to June 11 ; August 

 16 to September 20. 



304 [687] Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.). 



Redstart. 

 Abundant summer resident. May 3 to October 14. 

 Eggs: May 29 to June 21. 



305 [697] Anthus rubescens (Tunstall). 



Pipit; Titlark. 



Abundant transient visitor in the autumn, uncommon in spring. March 31 

 to May 21 (June 8) ; August 30 to November 20 (December i, January 4). 



The December i record is for 1891 by Mr. Damsell.^ The August 30 record 

 is for 1906, at Ipswich by Mrs. Edmund Bridge. On August 31, 1913, at Ipswich 

 I saw a Pipit. I have made many additions to my spring records for this bird 

 as follows : one was observed at Amesbury by Mr. Damsell on May 9, 1904;^ April 

 19, 1905, six seen at Ipswich by Mr. W. S. Townsend; April 30, 1905, fifteen 

 seen at Ipswich by me; May 21, 1905, one at Ipswich; May 3, 1908, two at Ips- 

 wich; April 3, 1909, twelve; April 18, 1919, eighteen; May 15, 1910, two, — all 

 seen by me at Ipswich; May 18, 1912, twenty at Ipswich seen by Mr. R. M. 

 Marble; April 4, 1917, one seen at Marblehead by Mr. H. W. Wright. 



306 [703} Mimus polyglottos polyglottos (Linn.). 



Mockingbird. 



Not uncommon visitor from the South. 



In the original Memoir I collected seven records of this bird for the County. 

 Four of these birds were shot. In the last fifteen years I have records of at least 

 twenty-five birds seen in the County and only one shot. This would indicate 



1 Allen, G. M. Auk, vol. 30, p. 28, 1913. 



