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 2o8, JPasserella iliaca (Merr.). Fox Sparrow. 



Breeding Range — Gulf of St. Lawrence to Labrador and Alaska. 

 Winter Distribution — Southern States to lower border of Middle States. 



Common spring and fall migrant, March 10 to April 10, and 

 October 15-December 1. Occasionally a few individuals winter in 

 the marshes of southeastern Pennsylvania, and in southern New 

 Jersey they appear to be more frequent winter residents. Mr. W. 

 E. D. Scott also records one taken at Princeton, N. J., January 14, 

 1879 {B. N. 0. a, 1879). 



259. Pipilo erytJirojihthalimis (Linn.). Chewink. 



Towhee. 



Breeding Range — More elevated parts of Southern States to British 



America. 

 Winter Distribution — Southern States mainly south of the Carolinian 

 Fauna. 



Common summer resident, arriving about April 18, and depart- 

 ing October 20, or occasionally as late as the middle of November.* 

 The Chewink seems to be scarce in the river valleys, and more 

 abundant in the dry uplands and Pine Barrens. 



260, Cardinalis cardinalis (Linn.). Cardinal. 



Breeding Range — Eastern U. S. south of the upper border of the Caro- 

 linian Fauna. 

 Winter Distribution — The same. 



Tolerably common resident in southeastern Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey, and locally abundant. In Pennsylvania it is confined 

 mainly to the river valleys in tlie southern counties, being especially 

 plentiful along the lower Susquehanna. It is not found beyond the 

 first ridges of mountains, except as a rare straggler. In southern 

 New Jersey the Cardinal is more abundant, and winters in consider- 

 able numbers on the tide-water creeks which flow into tlie Delaware 

 river near Philadelphia. 



*Turnbull and Warren state that it occasionally winters. Dr. C. C. Abbott 

 also states that a few winter in sheltered locations near Trenton, N. J. 



