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244 [584] Melospiza georgiana (Lath.). 



SwAMr Sparrow. 



Abundant summer resident, a few winter. (March 13) April 2 to Novem- 

 ber 16 (winter). 



Eggs: May 17 to July 14. 



The March 13 record was of a bird seen at Marblehead, in 1905, by Mr. H. 

 W. Wright. Messrs. A. P. Stubbs and G. M. Bubier have found it wintering 

 several times at Hall's Brook, Lynn. 



Figure 9 of Plate 46 in volume 2 of Baird, Brewer and Ridgway's History 

 of North American Land Birds, is labelled " Passcrcidus Caboti. Nahant, 62373." 

 There is no mention of this species in the text. Elliott Coues^ called attention to 

 this fact and states that the specimen which was in the Smithsonian Institute 

 was a Juvenal Swamp Sparrow. This erroneous species was overlooked in the 

 original Memoir. 



245 [585] Passerella iliaca iliaca (Merrem). 



Fox Sparrow. 



Abundant transient visitor (winter). March 12 to April 28 (May 2) ; Octo- 

 ber 14 to November 16 (December, January) ; average date of spring arrival for 

 five years, March 20. 



I have to record four December dates as follows : December 6, 1908, Ips- 

 wich ; December 26, 1908, Marblehead; December 23, 1910, Magnolia; December 

 8, 1918, Newburyport; and one January date: January 15, 191 1, Ipswich. 



Illustrative of the abundance of this bird at times is the count made by Mr. 

 H. W. Wright at Nahant on April 10, 1907, namely of two hundred birds. Some- 

 times their songs seem almost as full as on the breeding-grounds. They often 

 sing in cold, ioggy, easterly weather, conditions which probably remind them of 

 Labrador. 



246 [587] Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linn.). 



TowHEE; Chewink. 



Common summer resident. April 21 to October 17 (December 4) ; average 

 date of arrival for nine years, April 27. 



Eggs: May 17 to June. 



1 Coues, E. Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, vol. 8, p. 58, 1883. 



