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South of the breeding range, the average for four years of the last one seen 

 at San Antonio, Tex., is May 12, latest, May 15, 1885 ; Manhattan. Kans., 

 average of five years. May 11, latest, May 15, 1884; Onaga, Kan?., average of 

 fourteen years, May 14, latest, May 21, 1899. 



FALL inCRATIOX 



PLACE 



Isle Royale, Mich. 

 Manchester, Mich. 



Sabula, la 



Lanesboro, Minn.. 



Dunbar, Neb 



Aweme, Manitoba 

 Great Falls, Mont., 



BREWER'S SPARROW 



Winters principally in Mexico, whence it enters the United States in early 

 March; Los Angeles, Cal., March 2, 1900; Borega Springs, Cal., March 24 

 1895; Palm Springs, Cal., ^Nlarch 24, 1896; Vegas Wash., Nev., March 10, 1891 

 Ash Meadows, Nev., March 17, 1891; Huachuca Mountains, i\riz., March 20 

 1902; near Tombstone, Ariz., April 5, 1881; Coventry, Colo., April 28, 1908 

 Monon, Colo., April 29, 1905; Fort Lyon, Colo., April 28, 1885; Salida, Colo. 

 May 10, 1908; Arvada, Colo., May 14, 1905; Cheyenne, Wyo., May 14, 1889 

 Fort Custer, Mont., May 15, 1885. It has been taken as far east as Marathon 

 Tex., May 12, 1901; and Cherry county. Neb., May 16, 1891. The species was 

 still common September 25, 1906, on the Book Plateau, Colo, and the last have 

 been noted in the Huachucas, Ariz., October 28, 1907; near Silver City, N. M., 

 November 6, 1906; and near Garnsey, Cal., November i, 1903. A belated bird 

 was taken December 27, 1899, at San Fernando, Calif., and a straggler. December 

 15, 1873^ at Watcrtown, Mass. 



Notes on the Plumage of Sparrows 



In addition to llic migrati(jn records, whicli Professor Cooke will supply 

 (and of the value of which it is not necessary to inform Berd-Lore's readers), 

 the colored Si)arrow plates will be accompanied by a series of articles, by 

 the Editor, on the plumage of the birds illustrated. These papers will treat of 

 seasonal changes of plumage and of the diagnostic characters of the more closely 

 related species, and should be of value as an additional aid to field identifica- 

 tion. The first j)aper will ai)pear in the ne.xt issue of Bird-Lore and will deal 

 with the species illustrated in both this and that number. 



