38 NATURAL HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF GROTON, MASS: 



Common summer resident, March 1 to November. Often winters. 

 Burying ground. 



Pine Grosbeak. Pinicola enucleator. Common winter visitant, 

 October 30 to April 11. Everywhere when common. 



Purple Finch. Carpodacus purpureus. Common permanent resi- 

 dent. Orchards. 



House Sparrow. English Sparrow. Passer domesticus. Not very 

 common permanent resident. Introduced. Hedges on Main Street. 



American Crossbill. Red Crossbill. Loxia curvirostra minor. Ac- 

 cidental winter visitant. December. Pine trees. 



White-Winged Crossbill. Loxia leucoptera. Rare winter visitant. 

 December. Pines. 



Redpoll. Acanthus linaria. Common winter visitant, November 

 to May. Birches and alders. 



Greater Redpoll. Acanthus linaria rostrata. Rare winter vis- 

 itant. Seen once at our window. 



American Goldfinch. Yellow-Bird. Thistle-Bird. Spinus tristis. 

 Common permanent resident. Feeds on weeds, especially catnip. 

 Our yard. 



Pine Siskin. Pine Finch. Spinus pinus. Winter visitant, Oc- 

 tober to April. Weeds, birches, and alders. 



Snowflake. Snow Bunting. Plectrophenax nivalis. Winter visi- 

 tant, October to March. Flocks in snowstorms. Never in trees. 



Vesper Sparrow. Bay-Winged Bunting. Poocaetes gramineus. 

 Common resident, April 1 1 to October. Fields. 



Savanna Sparrow. Ammodramus sandwichensis savanna. Tran- 

 sient visitant, April and October. Fields. 



Grasshopper Sparrow. Yellow-Winged Sparrow. Ammodramus 

 savannarum passerinus. Rather common summer resident, May 7 

 to September. Long Hill, Chicopee Row. 



Henslow's Sparrow. Ammodramus henslowii. Summer resident, 

 rather rare, May to September. Long Hill, Peabody Street. Fitch's 

 Bridge. Fields. 



White-Crowned Sparrow. Zonotrichia leucophrys. Uncommon 

 transient visitant, May 6 to October 1. Quasoponagon meadows. 



White-Throated Sparrow. Zonotrichia albicollis. Common tran- 

 sient visitant, rare resident in summer, April 9 to November. 

 Quasoponagon meadows. 



Tree Sparrow. Winter Chippy. Spizella monticola. Common 

 winter visitant, November to March. In weed-fields, alders, and 

 birches. Everywhere. 



