14 Bird - Lore 
earliest date of striking the lights in the spring is April 3, at least a month after 
the beginning of northward migration, and the latest date of striking is May r2,— 
when the earliest migrants already have eggs in their nests. 
HENSLOW’S SPARROW; WESTERN HENSLOW’S SPARROW 
SPRING MIGRATION 
This species winters in the Gulf States from Texas to Florida, and starts 
northward early in March; it has been noted at Raleigh, N. C., March 22, 1897, 
and March 18, 1898; at Washington, D. C., the average recorded date of arrival 
for nine years is April 18, and the earliest, April 10, 1889; but the birds probably 
arrive several days earlier than these dates would indicate; earliest at Baltimore, 
Md., April 8, 1900; Morristown, N. J., April 30, 1890; Bridgeport, Conn., April 
30, 1903; Taunton, Mass., April 25, 1887; Webster, N. H., April 17, 1874; Bos- 
cawen, N. H., April 26, 1875; Tilton, N. H., April 17, r905; Athens, Tenn., March 
16, 1903; Shannon county, Mo., March 19, 1907; Iberia, Mo., March 7, 1904; 
St. Louis, Mo., April 17, 1909; Chicago, Ill., average for ten years, April, 23, 
earliest, April 5, 1904; Richmond, Ind., April 21, 1907; Waterloo, Ind., April 
28, 1903; Ellsworth, O., April 23, 1908 and April 19, 1909; Oberlin, O., April 
27, 1907; Youngstown, O., April 30, 1907; Detroit Mich., April 30, 1905, and April 
30, 1908; Grinnell, la., average of five years, April 13, earliest, April 6, 1890; 
Burlington, Kans., April 27, 1891; Baldwin, Kans., April 18, 1906; Lawrence, 
Kans., April 19, 1906; Lincoln, Neb., April 22, 1899; Dunbar, Neb., April 30, 
1904; Larimore, N. D., May 2, 1904, and May 8, 1905; Hallock, Minn., June 6, 
1808. 
FALL MIGRATION 
The average for four years of the last seen at Washington, D. C., is October 
13; latest, October 21, 1892; Berwyn, Pa., October 23, 1896; Waterloo, Ind., 
September 27, 1906; Chicago, Ill., September 26, 1896; Detroit Mich., October 2, 
1904 and October 1, 1905; Grinnell, Ia., average of four years, October 11, 
latest, October 16, 1886; Shelter Island, N. Y., November 20, 1901; the first was 
seen at Ariel, Miss., October 9, 1897. 
LECONTE’S SPARROW 
SPRING MIGRATION 
The principal winter home of this species is in Texas, and thence it begins 
its northward advance in February. The first were seen at Caddo, Okla., Feb- 
ruary 16, 1884, and two days later they were abundant. The general rate of 
advance is shown by the following dates of arrival: Lawrence, Kans., March to, 
1906 (a few wintered at Independence, Kans., the winter of 1904-5); Dunbar, 
Neb., April 7, 1906; Harrisburg, N. D., April 23, 1904; Indian Head, Sask., 
May 13, 1906; Edmonton, Alberta, May 26, 1897; Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, 
