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season, for we discovered no indication of their presence. Their 

 usnal "se-silick" note, though unobtrusive in volume or pitch, has 

 great carrjing power ; and is too distinctive not to be heard or recog- 

 nized wlien tlie observer is acquainted with it and is listening for it. 



127. Choiidcates grammacus. — Larli Sparrow. 



The Larli Sparrow seems to be another species that has retreated 

 from its range of late years in this section and the adjoining parts 

 of Michigan. Saunders found some numbers of them on the Point 

 in 1884, and again May 14, 1905, he saw two in the cultivated fields 

 by the roadside. Though we have looked carefully for the species 

 since, we have not been able to locate it. 



128. *Zonotricliia leucophrys. — White-crowned Sparrow. 



May 13, 1905, this fine sparrow was very common all over the 

 Point, but especially so about the clumps of cottonwood along the 

 east beach, wliere it was the commonest of the land birds there pres- 

 ent. We met the species again October 14-15, 1906, but other visits 

 have been either too early or too late to catch it on its migrations 

 on the Point. 



129.* Zoiiotrichia alhicollis. — White-throated Sparrow. 



A common and regular migrant. May 13 and 14, 1905, four and 

 one were seen on their respective days, but on neither of the trips 

 of May 21 or 30 of the two succeeding years were any noted. In 

 the fall of 1905 a few were noted, beginning September 14, and the 

 next year ten were observed the 15th of the same mouth and were 

 still common October 14 and 15, when we made the last trip of the 

 year. Our latest date on the Point in 1907 was September 0, but 

 none put in an appearance before we left. 



130. *8i)izeUa monticola. — Tree Sparrow. 



A common and regular migrant and, if we can judge from I'eports, 

 it must winter in considerable numbers, as during the winter of 1906- 

 07 Gai'dner spoke repeatedly of seeing large numbers of "Busli Spar- 

 rows." March 9-10, 1907, we saw large flocks in the weedy edges of 

 the fields. The»day was cold and bleak, and the chorus of the com- 

 bined flocks made a very cheering sound, when such cheer was wel- 

 come indeed. 



131. *SpizeUa socialis. — Chipping Sparrow. 



On all May and September dates the Chipping Sparrow has been 

 more than common. It frequents the road side mostly, and whether 

 that runs through cultivated fields, pine groves or red cedar thickets, 

 the Chipping Sparrow is invariably to be found in numbers along 

 its length. In point of numliers it must out-rank those of all the 

 other sparrows combined. It was common October 14-15, 1900, and 

 even as late as October 29, 1905, it was present in some numbers. 



