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Vol. IV 
86 BANGS — FLORIDA SONG SPARROW 
field notes made in Florida during many trips, and found but three 
mentions of the Song Sparrow, as follows:— 
1869. Melospiza melodia common at Jacksonville, January 1 to 9. 
Among tall grass at the edges of cultivated fields. 
1872. Melospiza melodia common at Blue Springs, January 1 to March 
30. 
1883-84. Melospiza melodia rare at Rosewood, November 5 to January 
15. Along borders of old fields. 
Furthermore, Judge C. F. Jenney informs me that on December 
25 and 26, 1911, he was at Blue Springs, a few miles from Enter- 
prise, Florida, and there saw a few song sparrows on each of these 
two days. 
The only other Florida specimen seen by me, is one from Hibernia, 
taken January 30, 1869, by J. A. Allen. This is not like the Enter- 
prise examples, and is undoubtedly a northern bird that was 
wintering there. Probably Maynard’s Jacksonville birds also 
were winter visitors, but the ones seen at Blue Springs, March 30, 
must have been breeders. 
The type of Fringilla melodia Wilson was a bird in winter plum- 
age, of large size, and very rusty coloration. Through the courtesy 
of Chas. W. Johnson, curator of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, I have before me a mounted specimen, that I have 
every reason to believe is Wilson’s actual type, which was no. 
6573, Peale’s Museum. Most of the birds from Peale’s Museum 
were acquired by the Boston Museum, and when this historic 
theatre was pulled down a few years ago, they were transferred 
to the rooms of the Boston Society of Natural History. The 
bird I believe to be Wilson’s type was in the Boston Museum, but 
has no original label. It exactly matches Wilson’s drawing, even 
to being an unusually heavily spotted example; all its measure- 
ments are the same, and when placed against Wilson’s figure it fits 
the outline exactly except the hinder part of the body and tail, 
which Wilson tilted upwards in order to fit in better with the other 
figures on the plate. 
Such birds, large and very rusty, occur on migration in the 
Eastern States, and I have always believed that they represented 
a race different from the breeding bird of the Atlantic seaboard 
