The Migration of North American Sparrows 



TWELFTH PAPER 



Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey 



With Drawings by Louis Agassiz Fdertks 

 (See frontispiece) 



LAZULI BUNTING 



The Lazuli Bunting takes the place in the West of the familiar Indigo 

 Bunting of the eastern United States. It winters in Mexico, and is one of the 

 latest migrants to move northward. 



SPRING MIGRATION 



PLACE 



Kerrville, Texas 



Tucson, Ariz, (near) 



Los Angeles, Cal. (near) 



Hayward, Cal. (near) 



Portland, Ore 



Pullman, Wash 



Southwestern British Columbia. 



Fountain, Col 



Yuma, Col 



Boulder, Col. (near) 



Beulah, Col 



Lincoln, Neb 



Salt Lake City, Utah 



Fort Custer, Mont 



Indian Head, Saskatchewan . . . . 

 Fort Providence, Mackenzie. . . . 



Number 



of years' 



record 



5 

 4 



ID 



6 

 3 



Average date of 

 spring arrival 



April 24 

 April 20 

 April 16 

 April 21 

 May 15 



May 14 



May IS 

 May IS 

 May 21 



Earliest date of 

 spring arrival 



April 

 April 

 April 

 April 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 July 



23, 1903 



14, 1903 

 4, 1896 



15, 1886 



7, 1908 

 13, 1910 



9, 1889 



2, 1872 



9, 1905 



8, 1905 

 II, 1906 



6, 1899 



3, 1909 

 20, 1885 

 18, 1903 



4, 1903 



FALL MIGRATION 



Some dates of the last ones seen are: Southwestern British Columbia, 

 average September i, latest September "6, 1905; Beulah, Col., average August 

 14, latest August 28, 1903; Yuma, Col., September 18, 1906; Pasadena, Cal., 

 September 17, 1897; San Pedro, Ariz., October 2, 1873. 



VARIED BUNTING 



The Varied Bunting is a summer visitant from Mexico to the Rio Grande 

 Valley of southern Texas, where it arrives in the vicinity of Brownsville, on 

 the average, April 20; earliest, April 6, 1890. 



A slightly different form, known as the Beautiful Bunting, occurs in south- 

 ern Arizona as a rare wanderer from its Mexican home. 



PAINTED BUNTING 



Most of the Painted Buntings winter south of the United States, but a few 

 spend that season in southern Florida, and it is^robably such wintering birds 



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