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48. Junco hiemalis Snow-bird. 



Common in winter. 



49. Spizella monticola. Tree Sparrow. 



Common in winter. 



50. Spizella domestioa. Chipping Sparrow ; Chippy. 



Summer resident ; very common, nesting in garden buslies. 



51. Spizella agrestis Field Sparrow. 



Common in summer. 



52. Zonotrichia albicoUis. White-throated Sparrow, 



Not common. 

 5.'5. Zanotrichia leucophrys. White-crowned Sparrow. 

 Not common. 



54. Passerella iliica. Fox Sparrow. 



Rather rare ; occasionally seen late in antumn. 



55. Zamelodia ludoviciana. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



Uncommon ; have taken occasional specimens in midsummer in 

 the forests of Chestnut Ridge. 



56. Passerina cyanea. Indigo-bird. 



Common summer resident. ♦ 



57. Cardinalis virginiana. Cardinal Grosbeak ; Red-bird. 



Frequent both in summer and winter ; have seen numbers of 

 them in Chestnut Ridge, where they probably breed, as I have seen 

 quite young birds there. One which I crippled by a shot in the 

 wing, lived in a cage for more than a j^ear and became an accom- 

 plished whistler. 



58. Fipilo erythrophthalmus. Chewink; Ground Robin. 



Common everywhere, in bushes and hedges. 



ICTERID^. 



59. Dolichonyx oryzivorus. Bobolink, 



Summer resident ; gregarious in the fall migrations. 



60. Molothrus ater. Cow-bird. 



Yery common in summer ; I have seen its eggs in nests of the 

 Indigo-bird and Chipping Sparrow. 



61.^Agel8BUS phoeniceus. Red-winged Blackbird. 



Breeds plentifully. 



62. Sturnella magna. Meadow Lark. 



Abundant ; breeds regularly, gregarious in the fall. Have seen 

 stragglers in midwinter. 



6.3. Icterus spurius. Orchard Oriole*. 



Not common. 



