BRIEFER ARTICLES. 

 A NEW SPARROW RECORD. IN EASTERN WISCONSIN. 



By I. N. Mitchell. 



On the 29th of March, 1910, some school children found a dead 

 sparrow in the road at Mayville, Wis. 



They took the bird to their teacher. Miss Myrtle Clark. Find- 

 in" it to be an unusual sparrow, Miss Clark conferred with two 

 other bird students of the place, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Ross. The 

 three agreed that it was a LeConte's sparrow. 



The sparrow was mailed to the writer for verification and was 

 found to be correctly determined. In the Birds of Wisconsin 1 it 

 is stated, "It is rather remarkable that the closest search has failed 

 to produce a single specimen in spring, none having been noted 

 before August." 



Mr. Wells W. Cook of the U. S. Biological Survey reports one 

 from La Crosse, W r is., May 13th, 1907. Prof. J. LI. Congdon of 

 La Crosse reported one at that place on May nth, 1907. Mr. and 

 Mrs. I. N. Mitchell reported seeing one at Milwaukee June 6th, 

 1907. This latter observation was not technically verified. The 

 Mavville specimen, now in the National Museum, therefore ex- 

 tends considerably the known spring range of this species. 



BUFALLIA, A NEW NAME FOR BBLONIA FALLfCOL£- 



OPTBRA). 



By Richard A. Muttkowski. 



In a recent attempt to determine two Lathridiichr I had occa- 

 sion to refer to Mr. H. C. Fall's excellent monograph of this fam- 

 ily of minute Coleoptera ( Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 26, pp. 101-190, 



1 ) Bulletin Wis. Natural History Soc, Jan., Apr., & July 1903. 



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