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was on June 21 in pasture laud about a mile eastward beyond 

 the limits of Jefferson. Here on July 30 the bird was still sing- 

 ing, and two immature birds were also seen. The song was 

 again heard at this place three days later, and a bird was seen 

 in the vicinity on the 17th of September. This was the first 

 breeding of the species which had come under my observation 

 in Randolph. On June 26 of that year again a bird was heard 

 singing on the Highland, but on that day only. In 1910, no 

 bird was heard or located in Jefferson. But at four different 

 points in lyancaster the song was heard by Mr. Spaulding and 

 myself, indicating four probable nestings of the species, while 

 just across the Connecticut River in Lunenburg, Vermont, two 

 others were singing at noonday on June 27, while our lunch was 

 taken at the roadside. 



Mr. Spaulding, writing me in the spring of 1910, states, 

 "The F'ield Sparrow is a new bird within the past five or six 

 years, I never having previously identified it, which I think I 

 would have done readily by its song." He testifies that he 

 has several recent records. The Field Sparrow would appear, 

 therefore, to have somewhat recently secured a hold in the region 

 and to have already extended its local breeding ground. 



On the other hand, Mr. Francis H. Allen writes me that in 

 June, 1889, while spending ten days at the Mt. Adams House, 

 he found the Field Sparrow in Jefferson and Randolph and 

 recorded it as " not uncommon " there, meaning in this case, 

 he states, "five or six birds singing." This would indicate 

 that it was a resident bird earlier than my first observation in 

 1902 and than Mr. Spaulding's, that it apparently disappeared 

 subsequently, and has recovered its ground in these later years. 



1 19. Junco hyemalis hyemalis. Seate-coi^ored 



JUNCO. 



A common summer resident and an abundant spring and 

 fall migrant. Nests have been discovered in hillside pastures 

 under shelving rocks or at the foot of coniferous trees, along 



