. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. BLUE GROSBEAK 117 and others; ^ South Windsor, June 15, 1927, male seen, about August 1, female seen, and both birds seen "off and on" until September 1 — "Mr. C. W. Vibert, who saw them many times, is convinced that the pair ; ^ Season in Massachusetts. — May 11 to September 23 (February, March). History. The Blue Grosbeak has been regarded as a southern bird which almost never appeared in New England. Peabody in his report on the birds of Massachusetts in 1839 mentions the fact that one was unques
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. BLUE GROSBEAK 117 and others; ^ South Windsor, June 15, 1927, male seen, about August 1, female seen, and both birds seen "off and on" until September 1 — "Mr. C. W. Vibert, who saw them many times, is convinced that the pair ; ^ Season in Massachusetts. — May 11 to September 23 (February, March). History. The Blue Grosbeak has been regarded as a southern bird which almost never appeared in New England. Peabody in his report on the birds of Massachusetts in 1839 mentions the fact that one was unquestionably seen "by a ; ^ Howe and Allen in their "Birds of Massachusetts" (1901) refer to only one definite record — a male bird shot by Mr. Gordon Plummer, Brookline, May 29, 1880.^. Spring and Summer Records of the Blue Gros- beak IN Massachusetts. Formerly two specimens were accredited to Maine, but Professor O. W. Knight in his "Birds of Maine" (1908) shows that these were taken at Grand Manan, New Brunswick. Re- viewing the known history of the species in New England up to 1908, we find only one specimen taken. It may be that the bird was merely fortuitous here in the past, but the records of more recent observers as given above show that such is no longer the case. I have never seen the bird alive, and so far as my knowledge of the matter goes, collectors have taken but one in New England. In the past, however, no ornithologist in New England had been in communication with several hundred correspondents intensely interested in birds (most of them of mature years and experience), scattered over the six New England states, and all interested in recording rare birds. It has been my pleasure during the past ten years to receive communications regularly or periodically from this considerable number of interested observers, whose cooperation I gratefully acknowledge, and together we have learned something about the distribution of this
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