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Spizella monticola monticola (Gmel.). Tree Sparrow. 



Common about the broom-corn near the station and in the small 

 swamp east of it, during the fall of 191 3 and winter of 19 13-14. 

 They probably visited the station at times where conditions were 

 favorable for them. 



Melospisa melodia melodia (Wils.). Song Sparrow. 



A few of these birds were seen at the station and sometimes they 

 were heard singing there. 



Passerina cyanea (Linn.). Indigo Bunting. 



Seen at the station August 11, 191 o; a male was on a telegraph 

 wire. 



Hirundo erythrogaster (Bodd.). Barn Swallow. 

 Seen flying about the station in August, 19 10. 



Lanius ludozncianus migrans Palmer. Migrant Shrike. 



Shrikes were frequently seen at the station, resting on the wires 

 or tops of telegraph poles, where they appeared to be watching for 

 prey below. One was seen to drop down from the wire and capture 

 a monarch butterfly. In the winter slirikes are sometimes seen at 

 other places along the Clover Leaf Railroad ; and in all probability 

 they visited the station then. One specimen obtained in August, 

 19 10, was L. ludozncianus migrans. The writer is not certain that 

 all the shrikes seen belonged to the subspecies tnigrans; some may 

 have been loggerhead shrikes, Lanius ludovicianus hudsonius Linn. 



Dendroica coronata (Linn.). Myrtle Warbler. 



Occasionally seen in fall about the bushy and weedy roadside 

 near the south end of the station. 



Geothlypis trie has trie has (Linn.). Maryland Yellow-throat. 



A male yellow-throat was seen, and heard singing about the wil- 

 low patch of the low ground in the summer of 191 1 and in May, 

 1913. A nest was probably present, although the writer was unable 

 to find it. 



Toxostoma riifnm (Linn.). ,Brown Thrasher. 



Not a regular inhabitant of the station; only one seen (April 23, 

 191 1 ), and this was on the fence. 



Planestieus migratorius migratorins (Linn.). Robin. 



Common at the south end of the station; many seen at times 

 resting on the wires. Probably attracted by the wild cherries near 

 this place. 



