44 BIRDS OBSERVED NEAR PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Vesper Sparrow. — Common Summer Resident, April 2 to 

 November 1 ; occasional Winter Visitant. 



Chipping Sparrow. — Common Summer Resident, March 30 

 to October 20. 



White-throated Sparrow. — Very Common Transient Vis- 

 itant, September 20 to May 20 ; Common Winter Visitant. 



White-crowned Sparrow. — Rare Transient Visitant, May 2 

 to 13 ; October 6 to 20. 



Fox Sparrow. — Very common Transient Visitant, March 

 10 to April 10; October 15 to December 1; occasional 

 Winter Visitant. 



Junco. — Very common Winter Visitant, October 1 to May 1. 



Tree Sparrow. — Very common Winter Visitant, October 

 15 to April 15. 



Redpoll. — Rare and irregular Winter Visitant. 



Snowflake. — Rare and irregular Winter Visitant. 



American Crossbill. — Rather rare and irregular Winter 

 Visitant; has been seen in May. 



Pine G-rosbeak. — Only casual Winter Visitant. 



Goldfinch. — A^ery common Permanent Resident. 



Purple Finch. — Tolerably common Winter Visitant, Sep- 

 tember 25 to May 1 ; very common Transient Visitant. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak. — Tolerably common Transient 

 Visitant, May 5 to May 12 ; September 5 to October 5. 



Towhee. — Common Summer Resident, April 18 to Octo- 

 ber 20. 



Indigo Bunting. — Common Summer Resident, May 10 to 

 October 1. 



Cardinal. — Tolerably common Permanent Resident. 



Scarlet Tanager. — Common Transient Visitant, May 5 to 

 May 18 ; September 10 to October 10 ; tolerably common 

 Summer Resident. 



Barn Swallow. — Common Summer Resident, April 14 to 

 Sex^tember 1. 



Cliff Swallow. — Tolerably common Transient Visitant ; 

 rare Summer Resident, May 1 to September 1. 



Bank Swallow. — Common but local Summer Resident, 

 April 8 to April 20 ; September 1. 



Tree Swallow.— Common Transient Visitant, April 20 to 



