The Migration of North American Sparrows 



SIXTEENTH PAPER 



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



With Drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 

 (See frontispiece) 

 BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK 



The Black-headed Grosbeak breeds from southern Mexico to southern 

 British Columbia and from the Pacific east to Nebraska. It winters in the 

 southern quarter of its breeding range, so that the southernmost breeding 

 birds are almost non-migratory, while the British Columbia birds travel back 

 and forth about two thousand miles. 



SPRING MIGRATION 



PLACE 



Los Angeles, Cal. (near) . . . 



Berkeley, Cal. (near) 



Huachuca Mountains, Ariz 



Carlisle, N. M 



Denver, Colo 



Beulah, Colo 



Colorado Springs, Colo. . . . 



Yuma, Colo 



Salt Lake City, LTtah 



Cheyenne, Wyo 



Grangeville, Idaho 



Fort Custer, Mont 



Great Falls, Mont 



Columbia Falls, Mont 



Red Bluff, Cal 



Portland, Ore 



Tacoma, Wash 



Chilliwack, B. C 



Number 



of years' 



record 



Average date of 

 spring arrival 



April 5 

 April 1 6 

 April 24 

 May 6 

 May 6 

 May 9 

 May 13 

 May 13 



May 23 

 May 26 



May 5 



May 14 



Earliest date of 

 spring arrival 



March it,, 1907 

 April 10, 1889 

 April 20, 1902 

 May 4, 1890 

 May 2, 1897 

 May 2, 1908 

 May 4, 1906 

 May 2, 1904 

 May 12, 1909 

 May 19, 1889 

 May 16, 1887 

 May 14, 1885 

 May 20, 1891 

 May 25, 1895 

 May I, 1886 

 April 28, 1889 

 May 20, 1904 

 May 9, 1889 



FALL MIGRATION 



PLACE 



Yuma, Colo 



Beulah, Colo 



Los Angeles, Cal 



Huachuca Mountains, Ariz 

 Silver City, N. M 



Number 



of years' 



record 



Average date of 

 the last one seen 



August 29 

 September 4 

 September 17 



Latest date of the 

 last one seen 



September 20, 1906 

 September 11, 1910 

 September 22, 1896 

 October 16, 1902 

 November 13, 1883 



ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK 



The Rose-breasted Grosebeak winters in Central and South America, and 

 breeds from Kansas, Missouri, Ohio and New Jersey northward, while in the 



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