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visiting various bird feeding stations, where they ate peanuts, buckwheat 

 and sunflower seeds. These birds were abundant from this time all through 

 the spring until May 21 when the last disappeared. 



Loxia leucoptera. White-winged Crossbill. — Seen at Norwalk on 

 various dates from January 13 to March 3, 1917. Never more than two 

 birds were seen at once, but that they were not always the same two was 

 evident from the fact that sometimes both were in female plumage and 

 sometimes one in that of an adult male. 



Calcarius lapponicus lapponicus. Lapland Longspur. — A single 

 bird seen in salt marshes at Norwalk in company with a flock of Horned 

 Larks, January 20, 1917. 



Pooecetes gramineus gramineus. Vesper Sparrow. — A single 

 bird seen at Norwalk March 10, 1917. Whether an extremely early spring 

 migrant or a bird that had wintered it is hard to say. No others were seen 

 until March 31, about the normal time for the arrival of this species. 



Passerculus princeps. Ipswich Sparrow. — One seen at Norwalk 

 April 1, 1916, and another November 11, 1916. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys leucophrys. White-crowned Sparrow. — 

 May 16 to IS, 1917, a single bird was seen each day in such widely 

 separated localities that it is not probable that they were the same indi- 

 vidual. May 19 the species was almost common, but none were seen after 

 that date. 



Junco hyemalis hyemalis. Slate-colored Junco. — This species 

 remained very late in the spring of 1917. I secured one on May 12 and 

 saw others up to May 17. 



Melospiza lincolni lincolni. Lincoln's Sparrow. — One seen at 

 West Haven, May 24, 1915, and another in Edgewood Park, New Haven, 

 May 11, 1916. 



Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis. Cardinal. — A male Cardinal 

 spent the winter of 1916-17 at Norwalk. It was first found by Mr. Geo. 

 P. Ells in November, and from then on became an object of special interest 

 to Norwalk's many bird-lovers and students. I first saw it December 9, 

 1916, and from then until April 9, 1917, was able to find it whenever I 

 visited the locality it frequented, in the morning. In the afternoon I was 

 not always so successful. It disappeared some time after April 9, and as 

 far as I can tell was last seen by a conductor on a trolley line, which ran 

 past its haunt, on April 11. I searched for it on the 15th and was unable 

 to find it. 



Another Cardinal, a female, was seen at Clinton during the Christmas holi- 

 days. I first saw it Christmas morning at 7 A.M. when its sharp call-note 

 outside awoke me, and I observed it for a short time in the center of a 

 gravel walk. The following morning and again on the 27th, the bird was 

 seen at 7 o'clock on this gravel walk. I never succeeded in locating it 

 anywhere in the vicinity at any other time of day. I am of the opinion 

 that it spent the nights in a large arbor-vitae tree about 15 feet from the 

 point where it was seen, and that each morning it began its daily program 



