Wy aes 
JuneE 5, 1912 Vor. IV, pr. 85-87 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
THE FLORIDA SONG SPARROW. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
In the collection of the late Dr. Henry Bryant, when it came to 
the Museum of Comparative Zodélogy, was a pair of Song Sparrows, 
taken at Enterprise, Florida, April 17, 1859, by Dr. Bryant himself, 
These two specimens have enormous bills, that cannot be matched 
in a series of over one hundred skins from points in eastern North 
America, north of the Carolinas, and that are, besides, of a dark 
grayish coloration. 
They are in slightly abraded plumage, and of course were breed- 
ing birds. Ever since I first noticed their peculiarities, I have 
been trying to get additional records of the Song Sparrow in 
Florida, with but little success. Undoubtedly it does occur as a 
very rare and local resident species at other points in the Florida 
peninsula, though little appears to be known about its distribution 
there. 
Mr. C. J. Maynard very kindly searched through his voluminous 
