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Harris, Notes on Harris's Sparrow. 



r Auk 

 LApril 



not far from the banks of the Little Vermilion, of the Kansa." x 



The information contained in this short paragraph is the only 



guide the writer has had in a search for the spot where the species 



was first met with. Not a little difficulty has been experienced 



in tracing the road between Independence and Westport in use in 

 the early thirties, since but meager graphic record of its course has 

 been preserved. The accompanying sketch map is in the main 



1 A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, hy Thomas Nuttall, 

 Second edition of the volume on Land Birds. Boston, 1840. 



