No. 20.] THE BIRDS OF CONXECTICUT. I23 



II, 1892, West Haven, male captured (H. W. F.) ; March 4, 

 1893, Bridgeport, four males (Eames) ; April 2, 1893, West 

 Haven (A. H. V., in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Nov. 10, 1893, West 

 Haven, a male (A. H. V., in coll. of Porter) ; Dec. 30, 1893, 

 Stratford, a female (Dunbar, in coll. of Beers) ; Nov. 22, 1895, 

 West Haven, a male (A. H. V.) ; Oct., 1904, Winchester, fl^ck 

 of seven or eight seen by Williams (H. K. J.) ;^ winter, 1904-5, 

 North Bridgeport, three flocks seen (Hamlin) ; Feb. 12, 1905, 

 Kent, one seen (H. K, J.) ; Jan. 21, 1907, New Haven, seven seen 

 (A. A. S.). 



Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (Gmelin). Vesper Spar-, 

 row. 



Formerly an abundant summer resident of the upland 

 meadows from April until October; now rare over most of the 

 state, none being found in places along the coast where they were 

 common a few years ago. 



Earliest record. New Haven, April 3, 1888, March 23, 1907 

 (C. H. Pangburn) ; Portland. April i. 1905, 1908; Bridgeport, 

 March 14, 1902 f Jewett City, March 20, 1889.^ 



Latest record. New Haven, Nov. 3, 1897, 1906, Nov. 4, 1906 

 (A. A. S.) ; Portland, Oct. 21, 1890. 



Winter records. Dec. 31, 1887, New Haven, one male taken 

 (A. H. V.) ; Feb. i, 1889, Guilford, one taken (L. B. B.) ; Feb. 

 17, 1902, Saybrook, two spending winter there (J. N. C). 



Nest. On the ground, usually in the grass of a dry and sandy 

 field. 



Eggs. 3-5 ; last of May. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. May i, 1906, four eggs (A. 

 A. S.) ; May 3, 1881, four eggs (J. H. S.). Latest record. July 

 26, 1894, three eggs (H. W. B.). 



This species seems never to have recovered from the great 

 freeze of 1895, when so many thousands of birds perished in the 

 southern states, and has become rarer annually since that date. 



Passerculus princeps Maynard. Ipswich Sparrow. 

 A rare migrant and still rarer winter resident, in the beach 

 gfrass of the seashore from November to March. 



1 Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 303. 

 * Bird-Lore, xiii, 2, p. 86. 



