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the others were in the plumage of the females. They were quite unwary 

 and seemed to be very much at home. The following day I saw a male in 

 another section of the county and again saw the band of the previous day 

 in the street near our home. From this time until March 2, when I left 

 home for Washington I saw the birds frequently in various sections of the 

 county and they were daily in our yard feeding in the patches of chickweed. 

 Mr. Griscom saw ten of these birds on Christmas day, 1911, on the Horse- 

 shoe Plantation, (Bird-Lore, XIV, p. 33). 



Passerculus sandwichensis savanna. Savannah Sparrow.— My 

 former articles indicate that this is rather an unusual bird in Leon County. 

 Such is not the fact. It is a very common winter resident, frequenting the 

 old corn fields in large numbers and often met with in the long, dry grass 

 of the lake marshes. 



192. Junco hyemalis subspecies? December 3, 1911, was a bright, 

 moderate day and having business at Woodville, in the southern part of 

 the county, my wife and I set out in our buggy for that place immediately 

 after breaktast. The county south of Tallahassee is for the most part flat 

 and sandy and otherwise character ized by vast areas ot pines and black- 

 jack oats with rank grasses interspersed throughout. We had reached 

 a point about five miles from town, and in country as described, when I 

 heard the notes, made familiar to me by my experiences in the District of 

 Columbia, of Juncos. I was not long in locating the birds, some 12 in 

 number, on the ground and in the trees just off the road. I was not pre- 

 pared to reduce a specimen to possession, hence am unable to determine 

 whether these birds were slate-colored or Carolina Juncos. Although 

 frequently in this vicinity and elsewhere in the county thereafter, during 

 that winter, I did not again meet with this species. This is the only record 

 I have of the occurrence of Juncos in Leon County. 



Progne subis subis. Purple Martin. — On the twenty-sixth of Jan- 

 uary 1911, I left Washington for Milton and De Funiak Springs, Florida, 

 to take testimony in several cases involving claims to lands in the Chocta- 

 whatchee National Forest. I stopped at Tallahassee on the twenty- 

 eighth. On the twentj^-nint'i, a beautiful, spring-like day, my father, 

 mother, sister, and I were sitting on the back porch about 11 a. m. when 

 I heard the cheery notes of Purple Martins. I went out to the south 

 side of our premises and saw two ot the birds leisurely circling over 

 a neighboring yard. I left that evening for Milton and remained there 

 and at De Funiak Springs until February 6, when I returned to Talla- 

 hassee, reaching there on the seventh. During the eight days spent in 

 west Florida I saw no signs of martins. Reaching Tallahassee I found 

 them fairly common and apparently estabUshed there for the season. I 

 had never before known these birds to reach the county at such an early 

 date, although I had preserved a careful record of their arrivals for several 

 years. I was at home in Tallahassee during the winter of 1911-12 and 

 saw the martins for the first time on February 20, 1912. Six of these 

 birds were flying high toward the northeast and at a rapid rate, seemingly 



