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Maine — Machias, November 2. Massacliiisetts — Harvard, November 

 9. New York — New York, November 27. District of Columbia — 

 Washington, December 23. 



Early dates of fall arrival are : Alberta — Glenevis, August 19. Mon- 

 tana — Missoula, September 4. Minnesota — Hallock, September 4. 

 Wisconsin — Madison, September 19. Ontario — Ottawa, September 

 9. Michigan — Blaney, September 19. Illinois — Hinsdale, Septem- 

 ber 14. Kentucky — Lexington, October 10. Tennessee — Memphis, 

 October 10. Mississippi — Ellisville, October 19. Louisiana — New 

 Orleans, October 10. Massachusetts — Danvers, September 14. New 

 York — Orient, September 2. Pennsylvania — Doylestown, September 



9. District of Columbia — Washington, September 23. Virginia — 

 Wytheville, October 24. North Carolina — Greensboro, October 17. 

 South Carolina — Sullivans Island, September 10. Georgia — Round 

 Oak, October 16. Florida — Fort Myers, September 26. Texas — 

 Somerset, October 7. Chihuahua — Chihuahua, October 9 ; Lower Cal- 

 ifornia, San Andres, September 21. 



Very few pipits have been banded, and the 10 recovery records are 

 all of birds retrapped at the place of banding one or two years later. 



Casual records. — In November 1848 a flock visited Bermuda, from 

 which two birds were shot, the date of one specimen being given as 

 November 26. The American pipit has been twice collected on the 

 island of Helgoland, an immature on November 11, 1851, and an 

 adult on May 17, 1870. An immature bird was collected on Septem- 

 ber 30, 1910, on the island of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. 



Egg dates. — Labrador : 21 records, June 10 to July 23 ; 12 records, 

 June 18 to 30, indicating the height of the season. 



xVlaska : 10 records, June 8 to 28. 



Colorado : 12 records, June 22 to July 26 ; 9 records, June 25 to 30. 



ANTHUS SPINOLETTA JAPONICUS Temminck and Schlcgel 

 JAPANESE PIPIT 



CONTBIBUTED BY WiNSOR MAERETT TyLEE 

 HABITS 



A single specimen of the Japanese pipit, the only individual known 

 to have occurred in the Western Hemisphere, was taken on Nunivak 

 Island, Alaska, on September 10, 1947. Harry S. Swarth (1934) de- 

 scribes the event of its capture thus : 



IlaiTold's [the collector's] note-book contains the following entry : "September 



10, 1927, Cape Etolin, Nunivak Island. A pipit with bold spotting on a cream 

 (rather than buff) breast and belly taken on the rocky shore of the Cape. It 

 struck me that its flight and actions were not quite typical of the American 

 Pipit, but Its note was not heard. It is nearly one-half inch shorter by measure- 

 ment than the average American Pipit." The capture of this bird (G. A. S. No. 



