FAMILY Fringillide. 
observer will find it easy to flush the bird, and by persist- 
ingly following its erratic and darting, low flight, may 
follow it from point to point among the tussocks of beach 
grass; each time it rises it utters a sharp ts?p in D or E 
beyond the highest C of the piano keyboard, thus: 
Thrice8 va. 
which is exactly one of the chipping notes of the Chipping 
Sparrow. Commonly the bird is found in broad reaches 
of beach grass in limited numbers, but occasionally it is 
associated with the Shore Lark and Snowflake during the 
winter months’ feeding at the margin of the water. In 
spring, one may be fortunate enough to hear the reiterated 
note which is a component part of the song, as is also high 
C, D or E. The complete song I have not heard, but 
from studied descriptions with which I have been kindly 
furnished, there is very small question about the following 
extemporized form being substantially correct: 
N°7 , Thrice p> iT ene Oe N22 LEGS ote 
> 
Ts. * @ OO A 
oe ee | a ee 
i (aay = le) a a = 
Tsip, tsip, ts-e-e-e-e afte eah a 
The whole song is not more than three seconds in duration, 
and the syllabic rendering is written, ‘“‘T'sip, tsip, ts-e-e-e-e 
pr-r-r-r e-ah,’’* which certainly is reminiscent of the Song 
Sparrow’s melodic form. Bradford Torrey writes in The 
Footpath Way, ‘I have now seen the Ipswich Sparrow in 
every one of our seven colder months,—from October to 
April.” My own last observation was secured in Novem- 
ber, 1918, on the sand dunes of Ipswich, Mass. 
*Vide The Ipswich Sparrow. Dr. Jonathan Dwight. 
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