1913 I 275 



flock of Starlit iticed From thai time until the pre enl writing 



I have -''ii ii" Starting action. During the cold spell they 



Lichmond, Vb - if ■•. r.oi.n If Bailet, Newport News, 

 Virginia 



The Evening GroBbeak in Wisconsin On October 21, 1012, my 

 mother, entering her poultry pard to feed her flock, found an adult female 

 ing Gro beak ll< periphonam pertina tn pertina) lying dead on the 

 ground On sk'nntng the bird for my collection I found it. to \><t in good 

 condition of flesh, with a few moult, feathers on head and neck, but could 

 find no trace of any injury sustained, nor discover any clew whatever at 

 to the '■•"i '■ of its death I bad pieviously wen none others here this 

 on, and at the present date, December 16 J for 



1912 W E - '.i-i.i'.. Beaver Dam, Win. 



The Snow Bunting [Plectrophenax nivali nivalis) in Chicago and 

 Vicinity during the Fall and Winter of 1912. On account of the ir- 

 regular occurrence of this bird so far south, 'Ii'- following record . showing 

 in Chicago and vicinity, as I have obsei ved it. during the fall and 

 winter of 1912, may be of inten I I the more interesting because Bird- 

 Lore's' Christmae cen us for 1912 (Bird-Lore 15:20 15. 1913) seem 

 indicate an absence of boreal species in the Middli , i Bunt- 



ing not being recorded outside of Canada, except in tl of 



Vermont., Massachusetts and New York,. 



October 23 on< about 'Ik- beach al Jackson Pari:. This bird 



arrived three days earlier than any previously reported from thU region (W« 

 \V Cooke/ The Migration of North American Sparrow Bird-Lore 15:17. 

 1913). October 2 1 there were two in the same locality. November 2 

 twel 'ii feeding on grs eed on the beach at Lincoln Park. 



November 30 een flying along the beach al Miller, Indi 



December 20, ten were seen aboul the rocks forming the breakwater where 

 land •■■■ ' being filled in at Lincoln Park Frequent excursions after Decem- 

 ber 2') failed to reveal any more of the bird . and they probably migrated 



still further BOUth. 



All the 1,1 id obsei vd were tame, allowing approach, thus making 



their identification a trery easy mattei Edwik \> Bull, Chicago, Mi- 

 lk Strange Sparrow Roost Early in the fall of 1912 th* 

 Sparrow in the City of Utica, \\ V .established a roosi in the tops of the 

 elm in the yard of a church in th<- most busy pari ol the City. At dusk 

 mbled to the number of several hundred to spend 

 the oighl in these unprotected trees. Early in January, Mr. Jam* 



• - called my attention to the fact that there ■• 

 some trange birdi among the sparrows, and after some difficulty in identi- 

 fication ii ■■■ i di covered that they 



