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Spizelki monticola Baird. — Tree Sparrow. Abundant. 

 Chiefly spring and autumn migrant ; but breeds, rarely 

 at least, as far south as ^Massachusetts, where many re- 

 main through the winter. 



Nos. 394, S ; 399, ?. Essex Co. S. Jillsoii, 1858. 

 No. 105, Auderson Kiver, north of Great liear Lake. Arctic America. 

 R. McFarlaue. From the Chicago xVcademy of Sciences, 1864. 



Sjiizella sockdis Bon. — Chipping Sparrow. Abundant. 



Summer resident. 



No. 401, (J. Essex Co. S. Jillson, Spring of 1856. 

 No. 423, $. -^ •' " >■ Autumn of 1856. 



Sjnzella pnsiUa Bon. — Field Sparrow. Abundant. 

 Sumu>er resident. 



No. 402, ?. Essex Co. S. Jillson, 1858. 



Melospiza melodkt Baird. — Song Sparrow. Abundant. 



Summer resident. I think it will be found to winter in 



the more southern portions. 



No. 391, $. Essex Co. S. Jillson. Winter of 1856. 

 No. 395, $. " " " " iJroG. 



Melospiza palustris Baird. — Swamp Sparrow. Com- 

 mon summer resident. Some probably winter towards 

 the southern limit. 



No. 400, ?. Essex Co. S. Jillson, 1856. 



Mehspiza Luicolnii Baird. — Lincoln's Sparrow. This 

 is a most extensively distributed species, whose range 

 includes almost the whole continent of Noi-th America, 

 and yet it is everyAvhere of uncommon occurrence. Three 

 instances only of its capture in New England are recorded. 

 (Springheld, Mass., May of 1860, '63^ '64. All., p. 73. 

 Omitted from tiam. 0. 0.) 



PassereUa ilkica Swains. — Fox-colored Finch. Com- 

 mon spring and autumn migrant. Not recorded as either 

 breeding or wintering in New England. 



No. 393, ?. Essex Co. S. Jillson, 1856. 



No. 100, \.'ashiugton, D. C. C. Drexler. From the Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Scieftces, 1864. 



If the PassereUa ohscmxi Verrill (Proc. B. S. N. H., 

 ix, 1862, p. 143) be a valid species it undoubtedly 

 visits New Enghmd in its migrations. 



Pyrgita domes fica. — European House Sparrow. In- 

 troduced, and at present only found in certain localities, 



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