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California, straggling eastward to Illinois. This is the most 

 eastern authentic range yet recorded. It is quite probable that 

 both this variety and also Junco montanus may be found in some 

 collections labeled hyemalis or oreganus. A lookout should be 

 kept by local ornithologists for eastern stragglers of these two 

 Juncos. 



Genus MELOSPIZA Baird, 1858. 



Mclospiza cinerea melodia (Wilson). Song Sparrow. 

 Fringilla fasciata GMELIN, S. N., I, pt. ii, 1788, 922. 

 Fringilla melodia WILSOX, Amer. Orn., II, 1810, 125, pi. 16, fig. 4. 

 Melospiza melodia BAIBD, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., IX, 1858, 477, part. 

 Melospiza fasciata SCOTT, Amer. Nat. X, 1876, 18. 

 Melospiza cinerea melodia RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 

 pt. 1, 1901, 354. 



The Song Sparrow is a common summer resident, arriving 

 early in March, and departing in October. 



The range of the Song Sparrow includes the eastern United 

 States from the Atlantic coast westward quite through the Great 

 Plains, breeding along the Atlantic sea-board and the northern 

 United States northward to the Fur Countries and wintering 

 from the latitude of about 50 south to the Gulf of Mexico. 



Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon). Lincoln's Sparrow. 



Fringilla lincolnii AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., II, 1834, 539, pi. 193. 

 Melospiza lincolnii BAIBD, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.. IX, 1858, 482. 

 Popular synonyms: LINCOLN'S FINCH. LINCOLN'S SONG SPARROW. 



A rare summer resident and a not uncommon spring and fall 

 migrant. Mr. George K. Cherrie obtained a young bird, just out 

 of the nest, at Worth, Illinois, on June 30, 1896, and on July 16, 

 1896, Mr. Cherrie and Mr. J. Grafton Parker, Jr., obtained an 

 adult and a nestling near Lake Calumet. These Sparrows arrive 

 in May and depart from the last of September to the middle of 

 October. 



While the range of this species covers practically the whole 

 of North America it breeds chiefly north of the United States and 

 winters in the southern states, Mexico and south to Panama. 



Melospiza georgiana (Latham). Swamp Sparrow. 

 Fringilla georgiana LATHAM, Ind. Orn., I, 1790, 460. 

 Fringilla palustris WILSON, Amer. Orn., Ill, 1811, 49, pi. 22. fig. 1. 

 Melospiza palustris BAIRD, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., IX. 1858, 483. 

 Melospiza georgiana RIDGTVAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 355. 

 Popular*synonym : SWAMP SONG SPARROW. 



