. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 248 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. have reddish-brown tips. P'emale brownish-yellow, beh)w rather paler than above, wings and tail dusky-brown, with, sometimes, faint traces of blue ; two brownish- wing bands. Young similar to female. Length about 7^ ; extent about 11^; female smaller. //o7n7«^.—Southern half of the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, south into Mexico. The Blue Grosbeak is a very rare and occasional summer resident in southern counti
. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 248 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. have reddish-brown tips. P'emale brownish-yellow, beh)w rather paler than above, wings and tail dusky-brown, with, sometimes, faint traces of blue ; two brownish- wing bands. Young similar to female. Length about 7^ ; extent about 11^; female smaller. //o7n7«^.—Southern half of the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, south into Mexico. The Blue Grosbeak is a very rare and occasional summer resident in southern counties of Pennsylvania. About five years ago, May 10, I captured one of these birds in the lower part of Chester county ; it is the only one of the species I have ever seen in the state. The Messrs. Baird ^vriting•, in 1844, of the Blue Grosbeak, give it as a native and say: "A few seen each year in the same place" (in the vicinity of Carlisle,' Cumberland county). During recent years, however, according to the report of Mr. T. L. Neff, of Carlisle, this species has not been observed. Dr. Turnbull (18G9) includes it in his list of rare and irregular summer visitants in the southern counties of Pennsylvania. Dr. Spencer Trotter * mentions the capture of stragglers in Philadelphia and Delaware counties. The late Judge Libliart recorded it as a " very rare" visitor in Lancaster county, where Prof. H. J. Iloddy informs me it has in recent years been found as a casual summer resident. Li the summer of 1884 Mr. W. H. Duller captured a specimen near his liome at Marietta. Mr. J. F. Kocher writes me that some few years ago he found a nest with eggs of this spt^cies in Lehigh county. Dr. John W. Detwiller, who has devoted careful study to our feathered famia for the past twenty-five years, shot a Blue Grosbeak in the spring near Easton, Northampton county; it is the only one he ever met with in the state. Messrs. George Miller and Casper Loucks have observed straggl
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