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the decoj's and in the twilight and from the position of the 

 hunter they were so indistinctly seen as to be mistaken for 

 ^ame bij-ds. One bird fell at the first shot and the flock rose. 

 The bird was brought to town and only the head and foot 

 Avere saved, these being now in the collection of ^Ir. J. T. Zim- 

 mer of Lincoln. The bird was shot ^March 14, 1911. 



White-winged Junco iJimoo aiheni) . — A specimen was se- 

 cured December 26, 1910, from a flock of about twenty-five 

 which made their headquarters in a neighbor's yard. They 

 seemed to be seen there oftenest, chirping among some low 

 trees and often feeding from the ground. The same birds were 

 seen on nearly every day for about six weeks during the winter. 



Hedpoll (,-lc(aitJus Iriu/rio) . — January 28, 1911, a flock of 

 redpolls settled in the trees near my home and spent several 

 hours talking to each other while feeding among the weeds 

 and vegetable stalks of my last year's garden. They were 

 very tame. I did not take a specimen as my glasses were suffi- 

 cient to identify them. They were seen in different parts of 

 th city on occasions during the month but disappeared before 

 the first of Feibruary. 



Lapland Longspur {Cdlcririiis lappoiiieus) — On the evening 

 of January 12, 1909, I spent some time in the evening listening 

 to some birds which were flying around in the darkness. Their 

 twitter was characteristic and attracted me. It was about 

 nine o'clock that I heard them. It was snowing very lightly 

 and the birds seemed to be flying in the storm. Later the snow- 

 turned to sleet and rain and still later it snowed a little more. 

 In the morning I found a Lapland Longspur near the back 

 door of my home. Later I found several more. They were 

 not dead but seemed to be frozen or chilled 'by the rain, sleet 

 and snow. When the school children came to school they 

 brought many individuals. After being in a warm room for 

 a while most of the birds revived but those which were left 

 out on the ground died. I counted the number of dead birds 

 on a vacant lot and then estimated the number of birds which 

 died from the exposure of that one night in the city at 10,000. 

 There were no reports of dead birds outside of town although 

 inquiry was made from a number of people. ^Most of the birds 

 were found in those parts of the city where the streets were 

 lighted. 



Wilson Tout, ^^orfIl I'hiffe. 



