164 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



FRINGILLIDAE. 



304. Melospiza lixcolnii (Audubon) Baird. 

 Lincoln's sparrow; Lincoln's finch. 



FringiUa lincolnii Aud., Ornith. biogr., 1834, vol. 2, p. 535, pi. 

 193. "Labrador." 



Peucaea lincolnii Aud., Birds of Amer., 1841, vol. 3, p. 116, pi. 

 177. 



Edges of dense thickets and tangled growth ; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Rare spring and uneommon fall migrant; rare summer 

 resident in extreme north (Ft. Kent; cT said to have been taken at 

 Boothbay, July 14, and four birds at Bobson's Id., Aug. 9). May 

 12-June 1; (summer); Sept. 8-Oct. 13. 



X. H. — Rare spring and uneommon fall migrant (once reported 

 in summer, Xubanusit Lake, July 28, 1900, Thayer). May 13- 

 26; (? summer); Sept. 7-Oet. 4. 



Vt. — Rare migrant. 



Mass. — Rare spring and uneommon fall migrant. May 7- 

 June 1; Sept. 12-Oct. 14 (Nov. 1). 



R.I. — Rare migrant, mainly in fall. (Spring); Sept. 27. 



Conn. — Rare spring and uneommon fall migrant. May 23; 

 Sept. 21-Oct. 3. 



305. Melospiza georgiana (Latham) Ridgway. 



Swamp sparrow. 



Ridgway, Bull. 50, U. S. nat. mus., 1901, pt. 1, p. 382. 

 FringiUa georgiana Lath., Index ornith., 1790, vol. 1, p. 460. 

 "cum praecedexte," = "in Georgiae americaxae ixteriori- 



BUS." 



FringiUa palustris AYils. Audubon, Ornith. biogr., 1839, vol. 5, 

 pi. 64. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 9, fig. 7-9. 



Swamps, marshes, and old fields; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Uncommon migrant and local summer resident. (Mar. 

 20, Bangor) April 6-Xov. 15. Eggs, May 31-June 3. 



