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but a kind of chirping not much different from the chirpings of 

 a cricket." This is a curious statement, for to me in its plain- 

 tive song there is all of the charm and sweetness of the budding 

 borders of April woods. John Burroughs' name of Bush Spar- 

 row seems quite as applicable to this species as Wilson's name 

 of Field Sparrow. 



Song Sparrow, Melospiza cinerea melodia (Wils. )• No definite 

 locality is given, it being such a common species that Wilson 

 could not be sure that it was not already described. 



Grasshopper Sparrow, Coturnicwlus savanarrum passerinus 

 (Wils. ). This species he found at Staten Island and along the 

 seacoast of New Jersey, but is not explicit as to the type locality. 



Savanna Sparrow, Passerculus sandw. savanna (Wils. ) is de- 

 scribed at length in vol. iii, American Ornithology, the figure 

 being that of the female. From Wilson's account it was evi- 

 dently named by him after the city of Savannah, and the naine 

 is so spelled. He speaks of having first discovered it there, and 

 later having found it abundant near Great Egg Harbor, N. J., 

 where he evidently obtained the Ipswich, or as he supposed, 

 the male Savanna Sparrow.* While not the type, ^Vils()!l's 

 specimen was evidently the first obtained. 



Seaside Sparrow, AmmodramMs maritimus (Wils.). In vol. 

 iv, plate 34, American Ornithology, Wilson figures this bird and 

 says, "Of this bird I can find no description. It inhabits the 

 low, rush-covered islands along our Atlantic coast, where 1 

 first found it." It is altogether likely that he first met with 

 this sparrow on the New Jersey marshes, possibly in the vicinity 

 of Great Egg Harbor, where he did much collecting and where 

 the bird is common. 



Solitary Vireo, Vireo solitarius (Wils.). Under the name of 

 Solitary Flycatcher, Muscicopa solitaria, Wilson describes this 

 bird in vol. ii, American Ornithology, p. 143, and says, "The 

 one from which the figure in the plate was taken was shot in 

 Mr. Bartram's woods near Philadelphia, among the branches of 

 a dogwood, in the month of October." 



Cerulean Warbler, Dendroica casrulea (Wils.). The type 

 undoubtedly from this neighborhood. In vol. ii, American Orni- 



* Of. Stoni-, Oiiprct/. 



