Bds. Obs. near Gray lock Mt 
Oo. Mass. June 28- July IQ.' 
Berkshire 
W, Faxon 
39 . Passerina cyanea. WoomRC.-Common in the more open 
countiy. Seen in the clearing on the summit of Graylock. 
Auk, Tl. April, 1889, p.ioi 
Birds of Bristol County, Mass. , 
F . W. Andros. 
Passerina cyanea (Linn.), Indigo Bunting. 
Summer resident, not common. Doubtless 
breeds. 
O.&O. Ail. Sept. 1887 P. 14 Q 
W, Middlesex Co. Mass. 
June 25-30, 1889. 
est 
most 
the 
jles t _ Tov, n send, Ashby. Ht. static One or the common- 
and most generally distributed birds in this region, found al- 
everyv/he re where there were bushy pastures or thickets along 
roadside sj observed on Ht. Watatie to the elevation of about 
800 feet. 
Distribution of New England Birds. - 
A .Reply to Dr. Brewer. H.A. Purdie. 
I had no idea that any one acquainted at all with New England birds 
could say that C. passerinus was rare, or even uncommon, in Southern 
New England. Why, it absolutely swarms, so to speak, on Nantucket. I 
presume Dr. Brewer will allow that island to be included within our 
limits. On Cape Cod, and, indeed, in various portions of Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and even northward to Concord, New 
Hampshire, it may be found in plenty at all suitable localities. At Say- 
brook, Conn., its notes were to be heard in every field. (See History 
North American Birds, Vol. I, p. 554, and local lists of New England 
birds, south of Northern sections, in confirmation of this statement. 
Bull. N. 0.0. a, Jan., 1877. p, / 7, 
