The Migration of North American Sparrows 



SIXTEENTH PAPER 



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



With Drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



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BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK 



The Black-headed Grosbeak breeds from southern Mexico to southern 

 British Columbia and from the Pacific east to Nebraska. It winters in the 

 southern quarter of its breeding range, so that the southernmost breeding 

 birds are almost non-migratory, while the British Columbia birds travel back 

 and forth about two thousand miles. 



SPRING MIGRATION 



ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK 



The Rose-breasted Grosebeak winters in Central and South America, and 

 breeds from Kansas, Missouri, Ohio and New Jersey northward, while in the 



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