Brewer.] 304 [February 6, 



is very abundant in various parts of that State, and lias been traced 

 almost to the Massachusetts line. 



Pyranga ludoviciana Bon. I have recently seen in the rooms 

 of a taxidermist in Lynn, a living example of this species captured 

 in that town. It was taken January 20, during the snow storm, in 

 an open cage set for the purpose with food to attract it. It had un- 

 questionably been blown thither from the southwest by the tempest 

 that had come to us from that quarter, and which had been making 

 its approach for several days. Its presence on the sea-coast of Mas- 

 sachusetts in mid-winter, would otherwise be inexplicable. It evi- 

 dently was not an escaped cage-bird. Its whole appearance showed 

 it to be a wild bird. Its habitat is the western portions of the United 

 States, from the Missouri Plains to the Pacific. In winter it migrates 

 to Mexico and Central America. 



Stelgidopteryx serripennis Aud. A single specimen taken 

 at Sufiield, Conn., by Mr. Shores, gives this a place in the New Eng- 

 land list (Nutt. Bull., ii, p. 21), and its abundance near the New York 

 and Connecticut boundary at Riverdale (Birds of Conn., p. 31) 

 seems to promise farther captures in Avestern Connecticut. 



Vireosylvia philadelphicus Cassin. Taken in Cambridge, 

 Ma*s., by Mr. Wm. Brewster, Sept. 7, 1875 (Nutt. Bull.,i, p. 19). 



Vireosylvia gilvus Cassin. My catalogue has been criticized 

 (Nutt. Bull., i, p. 73) because, as was erroneously alleged, it gave this 

 species as " presumably of all New England," its existence in north- 

 ern New England being denied by the writer. While the catalogue 

 made no such claim, this species does exist more or less commonly, 

 in large villages, as far north as the Canada line (Coventry, Vt.) at 

 least, and beyond our borders as far to the northeast as Halifax (see 

 Prof. I. R. Willis, Smithsonian Report, 1858, p. 282), and has been 

 found as far to the northwest as Fort Simpson, latitude G4° north. 

 Its northern limit, therefore, cannot even now be given with cer- 

 tainty. 



Lanivireo flavifrons Vieill. The occurrence of this species in 

 northern New England was not claimed in my catalogue, although 

 erroneously so stated (Nutt. Bull., i, p. 73). Its capture by Mr. 

 Deane at Ripogenus Lake (Nutt. Bull., I. p. 74), in northern Maine, 

 Sept. 4, 1S75, where it was a migrant from the north, seems to 

 show that we do not yet kno.v its most northern limit, and that it 

 probably extends beyond our own boundaries. 



