268 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



Long Island. Common winter visitant, often abundant on the 

 outer beaches; (October 9) November 1 to March 26 (April 6). 



ORIENT. Usually an abundant winter visitant, October 9, 

 1919 to April 6, 1916 ; average arrival November 1. 

 MASTIC. Fairly common winter visitant. 

 LONG BEACH. Regular winter visitant, often common, 

 October 24, 1920 (Lester Walsh) to March 26, 1911 (Griscom). 

 New York State. Rare and irregular on Staten Island 

 (Chapin); irregular from October 25 to March 22 at Ossining 

 (Fisher). 



CENTRAL PARK. Casual; March 5, 1904 (Carleton 

 Schaller); March 4 and 5, 1905 (C. G. Abbott and Hix). 



BRONX REGION. No record. 



New Jersey. Very rare and irregular, reported from Summit, 

 Plainfield, Morristown and the Orange Mountains. A single bird 

 seen at Stag Lake, Sussex Co., on October 30, 1921 (Justus von 

 Lengerke). Present on the Newark Meadows in some numbers 

 from November 6, 1921 to March 18, 1922; otherwise only a single 

 individual recorded (Urner). 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Very rare visitor; February 28, 

 1886 (Chapman); February 18, 1905 (Hix); a single bird 

 October 30, 1921 (Chapman). 



LAPLAND LONGSPUR (Calcarius lapponicus) 

 The Longspur is an irregular winter visitant to extreme 

 eastern Long Island, but is a decidedly rare bird on the 

 beaches near New York City, and the observer who sees it 

 more than three or four times in five years is fortunate. The 

 records are mostly of single birds with either Horned Larks or 

 Snowflakes, though five spent the winter of 1911-12 at Man- 

 hattan Beach. It is purely casual inland. 



The Lapland Longspur is a difficult bird to observe, as it 

 and the two species with which it associates are excessively 

 restless. If, however, a good view be obtained, it is absolutely 

 unmistakable, and bears a surprising resemblance to an 

 immature male English Sparrow. Nor is it particularly 

 difficult to pick out a Longspur in a flock of either Larks or 

 Snowflakes flying by. It is noticeably smaller and darker 



