Ohsei'vations on Birds. 103 



Pyuanga estiva, V, Summer Redhird. — April 24, 1878. 



Chkysomitris pinus, Bp. Pine Linnet. — Several observed during 

 winter of 1878-79; May, 1879. 



LoxiA CURVIROSTRA AMERICANA, Bd. Red CrossbUl. — Westwood, 

 Januar}, 1879. 



PocECETES GRAMiNEUS, Bd. Grciss Fincli. — March 25, 1878; Oc- 

 tober 26, 1878. 



CoTDRNiccLUS PASSERiNUS, Bp. Tellow-ioingcd Sparrow. — April' 

 27, 1879; November 17, 1878. A rather common summer-resident. 

 The sleek, little, yellow-winged sparrow is a cunning trickster. One 

 was singing on a fence the other day, imitating the stridor of a grass- 

 hopper. Being interrupted in rather a rude manner, he started hur- 

 riedly down the side of the fence farthest from me; but after flying ten 

 or fifteen yards he suddenly doubled, keeping near the ground, and 

 going so rapidly that the closest attention was necessary to follow him. 

 As soon as he lit, I started him off again, when he repeated the same 

 dextrous maneuver, but with the addition of another double or two. 

 He permitted three or four experiments of this kind before he realized 

 that he was favoring me with too generous a free-exhibition, and left. 

 The performance reminds one of the similar and usual stratagem of a 

 hunted rabbit. The voice of the little fellow is quite ventriloquous — 

 seeming to come from a^ioint much nearer than it really does. They 

 lie close until nearly stepi)ed on, and then flit out of the weeds and into 

 them again in a most vacillating manner, as though trying to dodge an 

 expected gunshot; and when l\\Qy light, they run so far and so fast 

 that it is difficult to get them up again. (l.b.f.) 



ZoNOTRiCHiA LEUCOPHRYS, Sw. White-crowned Sparrow. — May 11, 

 1878. Numbers seen and taken on December 28, 1878. 



ZoNOTRiCHiA ALBicoLLis, Bp. White- throated Sparroiv. — May 11, 

 1878. Remains very common into the first of May. 



JuNCo HYEMALis, Scl. BUick Siiow-bird. — October 13, 1878. 



Melospiza palustris, Bd. Swamp Sparrow. — October 26, 1878. 



Ctaxospiza cyanea, Bd. Indigo Bird. — April 22, 1878. 

 PipiLo erythropthalmus, V. To-whee Finch. — A nest taken in 

 Ma}', 1875, contained 3 eggs. This nest was pointed out to me by some 

 woodchoppers working in the vicinity. In two weeks my attention was 

 again called to the same pair of birds, they having constructed another 

 nest this time in the top of a mulberry tree, 20 feet from the ground, (c.d. ) 

 Icterus spurids, Bp. Orchard Oriole. — April 27, 1879. 

 Tyrannus carolixexsis, Bd. Kingbird. — April 27, 1879. 

 Empidonax minimus, Bd. Least Flycatcher. — August 27, 1879. 



