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with white. The bills of both were horn-color. The more yellowish bird, 

 quite probably a young male , gave many clear whistles as he moved about 

 in the birch, or dropped to the ground. The other bird, in the plumage 

 of the female, responded with a slight chattering. The birds were viewed 

 as near as fifteen feet. Both at length flew across the pond, where the 

 young male's whistles could still be heard. These birds were thus in Brook- 

 line as well as Boston and crossed the waters on which the rare wild ducks 

 wintered last season (Auk, October, 1910, pp. 390-408). Two other 

 records of a single bird each, seen by other observers, have come to my 

 knowledge, indicating that once more this far northwestern bird has 

 appeared in eastern Massachusetts. — Horace W. Wright, Boston, Mass. 



Lapland Longspur and other Birds in Delaware. — December 3, 1910, 

 while tramping a tidal marsh near Delaware City, Del., in company with 

 Dr. Spencer Trotter of Philadelphia, Pa., we flushed three birds we thought 

 at long range to be Titlarks (Anthus pensilvanicus) . On following them 

 up Dr. Trotter shot one and our surprise was great to find it a fine male 

 Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus), a very rare bird for this section 

 and a first record for Delaware. While the other two birds were seen 

 later they could not be positively identified as of this species. 



In 'Cassinia' for 1906, page 63, a total of seven individuals of this 

 species from the Delaware Valley are reported by Mr. R. F. Miller, cover- 

 ing from the first one noted by John Cassin, found in a Philadelphia city 

 market in January, 1849; one on League Island, Philadelphia, about 

 1864; four shot in New Jersey in 1895 (two of these near Princeton, possi- 

 bly not strictly Delaware Valley); the other seen at Harrowgate, Phila- 

 delphia, November 22, 1904. 



Among other birds there were observed at the above noted time and 

 place, several Titlarks (A. pensilvanicus), a flock of twenty Horned Larks 

 (Olocoris alpestris alpestris) , two shot; two Great Blue Herons (Ardea hero- 

 dias); six Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata), and several Savannah 

 Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis savanna). — C. J. Pennock, Kennett 

 Square, Chester Co., Pa. 



The Lark Sparrow in Massachusetts — On September 25, 1910, a 

 fine Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus) was observed at Berlin, Mass. 

 While walking on the Clinton Aqueduct in that vicinity a sparrow flew up 

 from the ground and rested on a low fence beneath us in fine light and 

 situation. This bird remained in a favorable position for several minutes, 

 so that all distinguishing features, even its swollen grayish bill, were easily 

 observed by our party of four. A friend living in this vicinity, who is a 

 bird-lover and good observer, records an individual of this species seen 

 in this locality in the spring. I have noticed this year and last that mi- 

 grating sparrows are found here in very large numbers and in our walks 

 discovered twenty-six species of land birds in a district of short radius. — 

 J. E. Kloseman, Dedham, Mass. 



