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Young: Above, olivaceous brown heavily streaked with 

 black, the latter predominating on top and sides of head; sec- 

 ondaries black, edged with rusty brown. Below, ochraceous 

 on breast, and white with sulphur wash on belly; legs very 

 pale brown; bill dusky. As the birds grow older the feet 

 become darker and the bill lighter. The youngest of these 

 specimens are so unlike juncos in general appearance that one 

 would hardly suspect their true identity, were it not for the 

 white lateral tail feathers. Fourteen specimens secured. 



Melospiza fasciata (Gmel.). Song S farrow. The most 

 abundant sparrow both at Grand Rapids and Chemawawin, 

 wherever the shrubbery was thick. The central tail feathers 

 in all of the fourteen adult specimens secured were very nar- 

 row and pointed, almost linear, much as in the genus Ammo- 

 dromus. This appearance is perhaps produced by the wearing 

 away of the barbs, although why this pair of rectrices alone 

 should be thus v/orn is a puzzling question. 



Young much darker than adults. Breast with a huffy suf- 

 fusion, and more finely streaked than in adult, these streaks 

 not aggregated into a spot. Top of head very dark brown 

 or dusky; no pure white anywhere; wings and tail feathers 

 dark brown, almost black, edged with rufous. The malar 

 stripe is the first distinctive adult marking to appear. 



Twentv-six specinit:ns secured. 



Family hirundinid.^. Swallows. 



Tachycineta bicolor (Vieill.). Tree Svjallozv. While 

 on a moose hunt about twenty miles above Chemawawin, I 

 saw apparently thousands of these birds on a few dead trees 

 standing out in the marsh. Some of these trees were so 

 crowded by the perching swallows that there seemed literally 

 to be no more room. 



Family ampelid^^. Wax wings. 

 Ampelis cedrorum Cedar Waxzvin2\ Abundant and 



