The Migration of North American Sparrows 



NINTH PAPER 

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



With Drawings by Lonis Agassiz Fuertes 

 (See frontispiece) 



DICKCISSEL 



One of the strangest, and, thus far, unexplained facts in ornithology is the 

 almost complete disappearance of the Dickcissel from those parts of the 

 United States east of the Allegheny Mountains, where, previous to i860, 

 it had been a common summer resident. Wintering in Panama and northern 

 South America, it passes through Central America and across the Gulf of 

 Mexico to its present summer home in the Mississippi Valley, where it breeds 

 from southern Mississippi and southern Texas, north to southern Ontario 

 and North Dakota. It is one of the latest and, therefore, one of the most 

 rapid of migrants, reaching central Iowa on the average, thirteen days after 

 it appears at the mouth of the Mississippi, — an average speed of nearly a 

 hundred miles a day. 



SPRING MIGRATION 



PLACE 



Swan Island. Honduras 



Ke}' West, Fla 



Northern Florida 



New Orleans, La. (near) 



St. Louis, Mo 



Quincv. Ill 



Odin, 'ill 



Indianola, Iowa 



Fairfield, la 



Des Moines, la. (near) 



Grinnell, la 



Sabula, la 



Siou City, la 



Bloomington, Ind 



Brookville, Ind 



Columbus, O 



Oberlin, O 



Chicago, 111 



Hidalgo, Tex 



Corpus Christi, Tex 



San .\ntonio, Tex 



Gainesville, Tex 



Ottawa. Kan. (near.) 



Manhattan, Kan 



Onaga. Kan 



Dunbar, Xeb 



Badger, Xeb 



Harrison, S. D. (near) 



Heron Lake, Minn 



Meridian. Wis 



Portage la Prairie, Manitoba 



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