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Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey," gives a record 

 -of a seaside sparrow in southern New Jersey on February 22, 

 but I can find no winter records from further north. On 

 February 9, 1908, as I was walking along the beach near Oak- 

 wood, Staten Island, I saw one feeding near the water's edge. 

 At my approach it ran under a cake of ice, but soon flew out 

 again and lit on the sand, where it was " collected." It was an 

 immature female, and had, so far as I could see, no physical 

 defects to prevent it from moving southward for the winter. 



Spizella pusilla. Two field sparrows were shot, and several 

 others seen, at Rossville, Staten Island, on February 22, 1906. 

 As field sparrows do not pass northward until about a month 

 later, these individuals had probably spent the winter in our 

 neighborhood. On January 24, 1908, two more were seen at 

 Watchogue, and, on February 16, 1908, there were four in a 

 hedge near St. Andrews Church, at Richmond. 



Pipilio erythropthalmus. Two, or possibly three chewinks, 

 have spent the whole of last winter on Staten Island. Mr. W. 

 T. Davis and the writer were somewhat surprised, on November 

 •8, 1908, to see a male chewink near Huguenot, as we supposed 

 the last of these birds had departed for its southern tour at least 

 a month or two earlier. A week later we found a pair of 

 chewinks near Richmond Hill. On December 13, the call of a 

 towhee, repeated several times, was heard distinctly near Rich- 

 mond Hill, and on December 20 a male towhee was seen near 

 Huguenot. The one at Richmond Hill was seen or heard no 

 more after the 13th of December, but on January 24 another, or 

 perhaps the same individual was observed in some cedars about 

 half a mile to the northward, near Buck's Hollow. Here the 

 characteristic call note of a chewink was again heard on February 

 7 and 14, showing that the bird was still present. 



At Huguenot a chewink was seen by Messrs. Howard H. 

 Cleaves and Alanson Skinner on February 7; and on February 

 21 Mr. Cleaves found two chewinks in the same locality, both of 

 which had perhaps been there all winter, though we had previ- 

 ously seen but one of them at a time. 



