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cruz he writes: "On March 30 there was sudden increase in their 

 number, evidence of migration from farther south, as on that morning 

 half a dozen came skipping about on the ground in our clearing. 

 They were passing in increased numbers through the early days in 

 April and were still present on April 15, when I left for return home." 



Dale A. Zimmerman (1957) describes his experience with Lincoln's 

 sparrow in Tamaulipas, Mexico: "In 1955, at Pano Ayuctle, we 

 found Lincoln Sparrows familiar door-yard birds that were easily 

 studied at close range as they fed on the lawn and about the buildings. 

 Two individuals that frequented a much-used path leading from the 

 house, seldom moved more than a few feet out of the way when people 

 walked by. They were as fearless as House Sparrows of city parks. 

 The contrast between this behavior and that of the species during 

 migration, and particularly on its breeding grounds, was striking," 



Very rarely one of these sparrows remains north during the winter. 

 On Jan. 3, 1960 Mrs. Else Rohner identified a Lincoln's sparrow at 

 her feeding station near Rochester, New York. It remained into 

 April and was seen by a number of qualified observers from the 

 Rochester and Buffalo areas. Mrs. Rohner reported (fide Allen 

 Kemnitzer) that the bird was fairly responsive to the placing of seed 

 in the feeder, that it held its own with other feeding birds and that it 

 was not overly shy. Its behavior appeared to be quite typical of a 

 Lincoln's sparrow on its wintering grounds. 



Distribution 



Range. — Western Alaska, central Yukon, Mackenzie, northern 

 Ontario, northern Quebec, central Labrador, and Newfoundland south 

 to southern Mexico, El Salvador, the Gulf Coast, and central Florida. 



Breeding range. — The eastern Lincoln's sparrow breeds from western 

 and interior Alaska (upper Kobuk River, Iliamna Lake; Cordova 

 Bay, intergrades with M. I. gracilis), central Yukon (Forty Mile), 

 western and southern Mackenzie (Fort Good Hope, Fort Providence), 

 northern Manitoba (Churchill), northern Ontario (Fort Severn), 

 northern Quebec (Great Whale River, Fort Chimo), central Labrador 

 (Hopedale), and Newfoundland (St. Anthony) south through interior 

 British Columbia (Atlin, Chilcotin Lake) to the mountains of central 

 and northeastern Washington (Mount Rainier, Windy Peak), northern 

 Idaho (Potlatch River), northwestern Montana (Flathead Lake), 

 southern and central Alberta (Waterton Lake Park, Battle River 

 region), central Saskatchewan (Big River), southern Manitoba 

 (Margaret), northern Minnesota (Leech Lake, Duluth), northern 

 Wisconsin (Madeline Island, Oconto), central Michigan (Missaukee 

 County), southern Ontario (casually to Pottageville and Wainfleet 

 Marsh), western New York (Monroe County 15 miles northeast 



