NOTES ON THE SUMMER RANGE 



OF DICKCISSEL [SPIZA AMERICANA), GRASSHOPPER SPARROW [AMMO- 



DRAMUS SAVANNAKUM PASSERINUS) AND HENSLOW'S 



SPARROW [AMMODRAMUS HENSLOIVII), 



IN 1894 AND 1895. 



BY LYNDS JON?:S. 



In response to a call issued in 1894, by the writer, for notes on the 

 abundance of these three species, reports were received from the follow- 

 ing persons : G. N. Upham, Coffeyville, Kan. ; S. S. Wilson, St. Joe, 

 Mo. ; J. E. Dickinson, Rockford, 111. ; V. H. Chase, Wady Petra, 111. ; 

 J. C. Galloway, Montgomery, O. ; W. E. Saunders, London, Ont. ; 

 Hubert W. Congdon, Staten Island, N. Y., and Henry R. Buck, Weth- 

 ersfield, Conn. 



From the notes furnished, nothing could be learned of the extreme 

 range of either of these birds, except in the limited region of Ontario, 

 Canada, immediately north of Lake Erie, where Dickcissel was rare, and 

 Grasshopper Sparrow was known by a single individual — the first for the 

 region. 



From a considerable nximber of references kindly furnished by Mr. 

 Henry R. Buck, it appears that Dickcissel is a regular summer resident 

 in New England as far north as Massachusetts, being rare further north, 

 but locally distributed. No unusual occurrences are reported for 1894. 

 These same notes indicate that Grasshopper Sparrow is common near the 

 east cost of Connecticut, but common only locally westward up to the 

 Massachusetts line. Mr. Buck has found the bird to be very rare at New 

 Haven, Conn. , but abundant at Stratford, fifteen miles west of New Haven. 



Mr. Hubert Wheaton Congdon has furnished me with notes from 

 several persons, only one of whom has found Grasshopper Sparrow in 

 New Jersey — at Bernardstown, where it is common. Another note states 

 that it is rare on Staten Island, N. Y. Mr. Congdon says that the species 

 is common in the Delaware Valley in Pike Co., Penn., but has never 

 been seen across the Delaware River in New Jersey. Its local distribu- 

 tion is well illustrated here. 



Henslow's Sparrow is rare and local in New England, judging from 

 notes handed me by Mr. Buck. Mr. J. E. Dickinson writes that it is very 



