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Long Island. Fairly common local summer resident, common 

 transient, rare in winter; April 5 to November 17. 



ORIENT. Rare summer resident at Greenport; uncommon 

 transient and winter visitant; April 25 to May 25; September 

 15 to November 25. 



MASTIC. A transient only, uncommon spring, common fall, 

 rare in winter. 



LONG BEACH. Bred 1908 (Griscom); uncommon spring, 

 common fall transient; April 5, 1917 (Bicknell) to May 29, 

 1915 (Hix); October 3, 1917 (Bicknell) to November 14, 1919 

 (Bicknell); four winter records. 

 New York State. 



CENTRAL PARK. Common transient ; March 26, 1919 (Hix) 

 to May 26, 1914 (Griscom); September 25, 1922 (Carter and 

 Griscom) to November 9, 1908 (Griscom). 



BRONX REGION. Permanent resident, scarce in winter. 

 New Jersey. Common summer resident throughout; a 

 permanent resident in the Newark and Hackensack meadows and 

 at Ash Swamp near Plainfield (Miller), rare or unknown in winter 

 elsewhere. 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Permanent resident, common in 

 summer, uncommon in winter, abundant in migration; the 

 first arrivals from the south have been noted as early as March 

 24, 1907 (Hix), but it is not until three weeks later that the 

 summer population reaches normal. 



Fox SPARROW (Passerella iliaca) 



This large handsome Sparrow with a splendid song is a 

 common transient, and among the first to arrive in spring 

 and the last to arrive in fall. While wintering regularly in 

 certain localities near New York City, it is much rarer else- 

 where at this season than several less hardy species, just the 

 reverse of what one would suppose. In the spring it passes 

 through very rapidly, and stragglers are rarely reported in 

 April. 



Long Island. Abundant transient, uncommon in winter at 

 the western end, rare elsewhere; February 22 to April 30; October 

 12 to December 29. 



ORIENT. Common transient, rare in winter; February 23, 

 1911 to March 17, 1915; October 20, 1906 to December 1, 1920. 



