The Migration of North American Sparrows 



SEVENTH PAPER 



Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey 



With Drawings by Lodis Agassiz Fuertes 

 (See frontispiece) 



CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR 



A species more particularly of the western treeless regions, where it breeds 

 from central Kansas north to southern Canada and winters from Nebraska 

 to Mexico. 



SPRING MIGRATION 



PLACE 



Number 

 of years' 

 record 



Averstge date of 

 spring arrival 



Earliest date of 

 spring arrival 



Onaga, Kans 



Huron, S. D. (near) , 

 Aweme, Manitoba. . 

 Indian Head, Sask. . 

 Cheyenne, Wyo. . . . 



Terry, Mont 



Big Sandy, Mont. . . 

 Nanton, Alberta. . . 



March 22 

 March 25 

 April 14 

 April 24 



May 2 

 May 3 



March 13, 1900 

 March 24, 1886 

 April 5. 1905 

 April 23, 1905 

 March 16, 1890 

 April 26, 1908 

 April 21. 1904 

 May 4, 1908 



Number 

 of years' 

 record 



Boerne, Tex 



San Antonio, Tex. . . 



Onaga, Kans 



Silver City, N. M. . . , 

 Huachuca Mts., Ariz 



Cheyenne, Wyo 



Grinnell, la 



FALL MIGRATION 



Barr, Colo 



Glorieta, N. M 



Rincon Mts., Ariz. . . 



Onaga, Kans 



Bonham, Tex. (near) 



Number 

 of years' 

 record 



Average date of 

 fall arrival 



November 8 



Earliest date of 

 fall arrival 



September 12,1909 

 September 12,1883 

 September 22,1907 

 October 22, 1896 

 November 3, 1884 



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