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eastern slope of the Palisades, as far north as Piermont, N. Y., it is common during the summer (Chapman, Auk, X, 18093, p. 87). It has been found on Long Island in the winter (Dutcher, MS). Since the above was written, in 1894, this species appears to have increased in numbers, locally. *House Wren (Troglodytcs acdon). This common and familiar species comes to us about May 1 and remains until October. *Winter Wren (Olbiorchilus hiemalis). Just before the House Wren leaves us, or about October 1, the Winter Wren comes from the north and is not uncommen until the House Wren returns in May.
Short-billed Marsh Wren (Cistothorus stellaris). This species is here a common summer resident of very local distribution. Fic. 35. WINTER WREN.
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186 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Long-billed Marsh Wren (7 elmatodytes palustris). This abundant inhabitant of our reedy marshes arrives in May and remains until October or November.
Famity CERTHIIDZE. Creepers.
*Brown Creeper (Certhia familiaris americana). The Creeper is here a rather common winter resident, arriving from the north about October 1 and remaining until April.
Famity SITTID. NvutHaATCHES.
*White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis). A common permanent resident. *Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis). This bird is sometimes common from the later part of August to October and Fic. 36. RED-BREASTED occasionally remains during the winter. NuTHATCH. Famity PARID/©. Tuirmice.
Tufted Titmouse (Baolophus bicolor). This bird is resident and breeds as far north as Orange, N. J. (Riker), and Staten Island, N. Y. (Hollick). Beyond these points it occurs regularly but rarely. It is observed yearly in April at Englewood, N. J. (Chapman). There are few records for Connecticut, and although Giraud leads us to believe it was not uncommon and bred on Long Island when he wrote, it is now very rare there. (Braislin, Auk, XIX, p. 148.)
Fic. 37. CHICKADEE.
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BIRD SOR THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK CITY 187 *Chickadee(Penthestes atricapillus). The Chickadee is here a common permanent resident, but is more numerous during its migration in October than at other times.
Carolina Chickadee (Penthestes carolinensis). “Southeastern United States, north to New Jersey and Illinois.” This species reaches the southern limit of our district at Princeton, N. J., where it is a not uncommon resident, while P. atricapillus is found there only in the winter (Babson). Famity SYLVIID. KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS.
*Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa). A not common winter resident ia favorable localities; it arrives from the north about October I and remains until May.
Fic. 38. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET.
*Ruby-crowned Kinglet (/egulus calendula). A common spring, and an abundant fall migrant, arriving from the south about the middle of April and returning late in September.
*Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila cerulea). Eastern United States, breeding from the Gulf States to northern Illinois, southern Ontario and northern New Jersey, and wandering rarely to Minnesota and Maine, winters from Florida southward. There are numerous records of capture of this southern species in the vicinity of New York City, but it is not known to occur regularly nearer than Princeton, N. J., where it arrives from “April 25 to May 1” (Scott, The Country, I. 1878, p. 354).
Townsend’s Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi). A male of this species was taken at King’s Park, L. I., November 25, 1905, by J. A. Weber (Dwight, Auk, XXIII, 1906, p. 105).
*Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustclina). The Wood Thrush is an abundant summer resident, arriving about May 1 and remaining until early October. It [79]
188 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM. JOURNAL may rightly claim to rank as the most gifted of our summer songsters. (See group, second floor.)
Wilson’s Thrush (Hylocichla fuscescens), Wilson’s Thrush, or the Veery, as it is better called, is a common summer resident, arriving about May 1 and remaining until September. (See group, third floor.)
Gray-cheeked Thrush (Hylocichla alicic@). A common migrant, passing nerthward in May and southward in September and October. Bicknell’s Thrush (Hylocichla bicknelli). So far as records go, this is a rather rare migrant, occurring in May and September and October, but careful search will doubtless show it to be more common than is generally supposed. Olive-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni). The Olive-backed Thrush is a common migrant in this vicinity. It passes northward in May and southward in September and October.
Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata pallasi.) An abundant migrant and eceasionally is found in small numbers during the winter. In the spring it passes northward between April to and May 1; its fall migration takes place between October 1 and November 1. There is a record of its probable breeding at Lake Ronkonkoma, L. I. (Dutcher, Auk, III, 1886, p. 443). American Robin (Merula migratoria). The Robin is our most abundant summer resident, and in favorable localities a few may be found in the winter Migrants begin to arrive toward the last of February, and the species is abundant until December. (See group, third floor.)
Varied Thrush (Jxoreus nevius subsp. 7). The local status of this Pacific coast bird appears to be well stated in Coues’ “Birds of the Colorado Valley,” where George N. Lawrence is quoted as follows: “Besides Cabot’s New Jersey example, two others have been procured near New York City—one at Islip, Long Island, shot in the fall, in company with Robins, and now in the possession of the person who secured it, the other at Hoboken, New Jersey. Both were received in the flesh by Mr. J. Akhurst, to be mounted; the Hoboken one was subsequently destroyed by fire in the taxidermist’s workshop. All the specimen’s in my own cabinet came from the Pacific side.”
The Cabot specimen mentioned above by Lawrence is possibly the one referred to by Turnbull (Birds of East. Penn. and N. J.), but without data. Wheatear (Saricola enanthe leucorhoa). This northern species is of accidental occurrence in this vicinity; it has been twice recorded from Long Island (Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1886, p. 282; Dutcher, Auk, X, 1893, P.277.
Bluebird (Sialia sialis). The Bluebird is here a common summer resident, an abundant migrant, and not infrequent winter resident. Migrants begin to arrive from the south early in March.
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List OF PRINCIPAL PAPERS RELATING TO THE BIRDS OF THE VICINITY oF NEw YorK City.
De Kay, J. E. Zoology of New York, or the New York Fauna; comprising detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the State of New York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders, and accompanied by appropriate illustrations. Part II, Birds. Albany: 1 Vol., 4 to, pp. xii, 380, pll. col’d, 14r. Treats of 308 species. ‘“‘Though still constantly quoted—and properly to be referred to—it has ceased to be regarded as an authority’? (Coues). Giraup, J. P., Jr. The Birds of Long Island....New York: published by Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway....1 Vol., 8vo., pp. i—xxiv, I—397. Treats of 286 species, giving descriptions and extended annotations. Only 200 copies of this work are supposed to have been placed in circulation. Lawrence, G. N. Catalogue of Birds observed on New York, Long, and Staten Island and the adjacent parts of New Jersey. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., New York, VIII, pp. 279—300.
A partly annotated list of 327 species.
Assott, C. C. Catalogue of Vertebrate Animals of New Jersey. Cooke’s Geology of New Jersey. Appendix E. Birds, pp. 761—7o8. An annotated list of 301 species, abounding in errors and only to be used with discrimination.
TURNBULL, W. P. The Birds of East Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Glasgow, Printed for Private Circulation.
BICKNELL, E. P. Field Notes at Riverdale. Forest and Stream, VI, p. 233; also pp. 133, 148, 386, 402.
Winter and spring notes on numerous species.
STEVENS, W. G. Bird arrivals on the Harlem. Forest and Stream, VI, p. 215.
Notes on 40 species.
Merriam, C. Hart. A Review of the Birds of Connecticut with Remarks on Their Habits. Trans. Conn. Acad., IV, pp. 1—16s. A fully annotated list of 292 species.
Stevens, W. B. [Arrivals of Birds at West Farms, N. Y., during the springs of 1874, 1875, and 1876.1 Forest and Stream, VIII, p. goo. Dates of arrival of 32 species.
BENNER, F, Bird Notes from Long Island. Forest and Stream, X, Pp. 174, 215.
Notes from Astoria on a number of species.
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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL BickNELL, E. P. Evidences of the Carolinian Fauna in the Lower Hudson Valley, Principally from Observations taken at Riverdale, N. Y. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, pp. 128—132. On 13 Carolinian species. (See also Allen, J. A. itbid., pp. 149, 150.) Huyier, A. I. Winter Birds on the Hackensack. The Country, I, p.149.
Lawrence, N. T. Notes on several rare Birds taken on Long Island. Forest and Stream, X, p. 235.
Noteson24species.
Winkie, N. [Spring Birds at Summit, N. J.] The Country, II, p. 57. Coves, G. H. List of Birds observed in the Naval Hospital Grounds, in Brooklyn City. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, pp. 31—33. Brief notes on 60 species.
Herrick, H. Notes on some Birds of Chatham, N. J. Forest and Stream, XII, p. 165.
1879—80. Mearns, E. A. A list of the Birds of the Hudson Highlands. 1879.
1870.
1879.
Bull, Essex (Mass.) Inst., X, pp. 166—179; XI, 43—52, 154—168, 189— 204; XII, 11—25, 1og—128; XIII, 75—93. One of the best and most complete of our local papers, treating fully of 209 species. (See also an Addendum adding 5 species in The Auk, VII, 1890, pp. 55, 56; also reviews in Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, 1880, p. 175; VI, 1881, p. 172.) Nicuots, G. N. Migration of some Warblers through Summit, N. J., during the last spring. Forest and Stream, XII, p. 464. Noteson18species.
RoosEvELT, T. Notes on some of the Birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island. One-page leaflet, published by the author. Notes on 17 species.
Scott, W. E. D. Late Fall and Winter Notes on some Birds Observed in the Vicinity of Princeton, N. J., 1878—79. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, pp. 81—8s.
Notes on 35 species.
1879—85. FisuHer, A. K. Occurrence of Several rare Birds near Sing Sing, 1880.
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N. Y. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV. pp. 61, 62. Notes on 5 species. For additional notes by the same author on the rarer birds of Sing Sing, see ibid., III, 1878, pp. 191, 192; IV, 1879, p. 234; VI, 1881, p. 245; VII, 1882, pp. 249, 251; VIII, 1883, pp. 121, 180; Auk, II, 1885, pp. 306, 378.
LawreNce, R. Notes on some of the Rarer Birds of Long Island, N. Yo) Bull NuttisO@xrns (Club Vesppanaio. na Noteson8species.
Srearns, W. A. List of Birds of Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 8vo., pp. 16. Published by the author.
A briefly annotated list of 138 species. (Review in Bull. Nutt, Orn. Club, V, 1880, p.233.)
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