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or Vesper Sparrows — in weedy upland fields and occasionally even in apple 

 orchards. If I am not mistaken in my recollection (which, however, is not con- 

 firmed by anything in my note-books) a few birds used to appear quite regularly 

 in April in a weed-grown garden at the rear of our house, but I have seen none 

 there — nor indeed anywhere in the immediate neighborhood — for thirty years 

 or more. Of late they have been found rather commonly in autumn — as I have 

 just mentioned in a passage relating to the Ipswich Sparrow — in Cambridgeport, 

 where they frequent certain tracts of made land which have replaced the salt 

 marshes where they bred so numerously in the days of my youth. 



I have a Savanna Sparrow which Mr. Wilmot W. Brown took in Somer- 

 ville on December 4, 1889, a date sufficiently late to suggest that the species 

 may occasionally pass the winter in the Cambridge region. It has been noted 

 in midwinter at two localities (Ipswich and Sandwich) on the seacoast of Mass- 

 achusetts. 



156. Coturniculus savannarum passerinus (VVils.). 

 Grasshopper Sparrow. Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



Rather rare summer resident. 



seasonal occurrence. 



May 16, 1890, one heard, Waltham, W. Faxon. 



May 16 — September i. 

 December 6, 1S92, one taken, Arlington, H. G. Nichols. 



The inconspicuous little Yellow-winged Sparrow was first detected in the 

 Cambridge Region by Mr. C. J. Maynard who, in 1867 and for a few years later, 

 met with one or two birds each summer on the north side of Charles River a 

 little to the eastward of the Gore estate in Waltham and nearly on the dividing 

 line between that town and Watertown. On June 12, 1878, I heard several 

 males singing, and shot a female, on a barren, wind-swept hilltop in Belmont not 

 far from Rock Meadow. Mr. Walter Fa.\on has since found the species passing 

 the summer here as well as at two localities in Waltham and two or three in 

 Le.xington, while I have evidence which indicates that it has nested for more than 

 thirty years past in some extensive sandy fields lying just to the westward of 

 Hobbs Brook Reservoir in Lincoln. No one of these stations appears to be 

 ever occupied by more than one or two breeding pairs. 



