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60. PasseR pomEsTicus (Linn.) House Sparrow; English 
Sparrow. An abundant resident. They multiply rapidly, 
each pair of birds raising several broods in a season. 
61. Sprnus TRisTis (Linn.) American Goldfinch; Yellow- 
bird ; Lettuce bird. A familiar bird throughout the year. 
62. POOCAETES GRAMINEUS (Gmel.) Vesper Sparrow ; Bay- 
winged Bunting. Winter visitor, rather rare. 
63. AMMODMRAMUS SANDWICHENSIS SAVANNA (Wils.) Savan- 
na Sparrow. Common winter visitor. 
64. AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM PASSERINUS (Wils.) Grass- 
hopper Sparrow. Seen in winter and spring. A few may 
breed. 
65, ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS(Gmel.) White-throated Spar- 
row. An abundant winter sejourner, associating in flocks of- 
ten in comparty with the snowbird (/wuco). Earliest arrival 
noted in 1897 was on October 4. 
66. SPIZELLA MONTICOLA (Gmel.) Tree Sparrow. Listed 
a ae Atkinson probably as a winter occurence. 
. SPIZELLA SOCIALIS (Wils.) Cnipping Sparrow. One of 
our ee abundant summer birds, building its nest in the 
trees and bushes about the campus. First spring arrival 
for 1899 was seen on April 11. 
68. SPIZELLA PUSILLA (Wils.) Field Sparrow. Common 
summer resident. It nests in low bushes or on the ground. 
69. JUNCO HYEMALIS (Linn.) Slate-colored Junco; Snow- 
bird. ‘This is one of our best known winter friends, and is 
met with in numbers from the time of its arrival late in the 
autumn until the warm April days. It then leaves for its 
summer home in the north. ‘There is a common saying about 
the country that this bird in the spring turns to a sparrow, 
and in the fall of the year again assumes the dark coat and 
hood of the snowbird. My first record of its arrival in the 
fall of 1897 is October 30. 
70. PEUCAEK AESTIVALIS BACHMANII (Aud.) Bachman’s 
Sparrow. ‘‘One taken froma breeding pair by myself at 
Chapel Hill. The nest was found by Willie Gullick; eggs 4, 
size .63x.70, dull whitish; nest a bulky structure on the 
