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(December 4, 1916) Siskin’s (Spinus pinus), Acadian Chickadees (Pen- 
thestes hudsonicus littoralis), Redpolls (Acanthis linaria linaria) American 
and white-winged Crossbills (Loria curvirostra minor and L. leucoptera), 
Pine Grosbeaks (Pinicola enucleator leucura), Evening Grosbeaks ( Hesperi- 
phona vespertina vespertina), Snow Buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis nivalis), 
Snowy Owl (Nyctea nyctea), and Rough-legged Hawks (Archibuteo lagopus 
sancti-johannis) are here, many of them in much greater abundance than 
for many years.— Mrs. Grorce H. MELuEN, Newton Highlands, Mass. 
Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertina vespertina) at Cinnamin- 
son, N. J.— On December 3, 1916, Mr. Charles Evans of Cinnaminson, 
near Riverton, N. J., found two Evening Grosbeaks feeding on his lawn. 
He recognized them at once by a colored plate of the species which he 
had, but supplemented this identification with a direct comparison with 
the description in Chapman’s ‘Handbook.’ The birds were exceedingly 
tame and would scarcely get out of his way. Cinnaminson is only eight 
miles above Philadelphia on the opposite side of the Delaware River and 
this constitutes the first record of the species south of Plainfield, Fair 
Haven and Princeton from which places it is recorded in ‘ Bird-Lore,’ for 
1911 and 1918. The Cinnaminson birds are therefore the most southern 
recorded occurrence for this interesting species.— GEORGE SPENCER 
Morris, Olney, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Clarence Henry Morrell —A Correction.— In the ‘Ten Year Index 
to the Auk,’ p. XIX, 1915, the birth place of Clarence Henry Morrell is 
given as Pittsfield, Me., and the date of birth as Feb. 23, 1872. These 
data were obtained from an obituary notice by Mr. J. M. Swain in ‘ The 
Auk’ for 1902, p.423. My attention was recently called to a more extended 
biographical sketch of Mr. Morrell in the ‘Journal of the Maine Ornitholog- 
ical Society,’ V, pp. 7-12, 1903, also prepared by Mr. Swain, stating that 
Mr. Morrell was born at River Hobart, Nova Scotia, Feb. 27, 1872. This 
statement Mr. Swain advises me is correct and the place and date originally 
published in ‘ The Auk’ are erroneous.— T. S. Paumer, Washington, D.C. 
