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and may also have been a summer resident bird in a locality 

 not far removed from Jefferson. 



Mr. Knight's Maine records give September 8 to October 

 13 as the period of the fall migration. In some seasons the 

 first migrant has not been seen until the middle of September 

 or even the 19th or up to the 22d. The latest records are vari- 

 ously October 10, 11, and 12 in some of the years, a single bird 

 being then recorded. Several are noted usually in the earlier 

 days of the month, distributed in different places ; and there is 

 always a small representation of the species throughout the 

 period of the migration, which lasts generally from three to four 

 weeks and sometimes even a few days more. The birds are 

 usually in association with Song and White-throated Sparrows 

 in weedy patches and at bushy or wooded borders of fields, and 

 sometimes among the roadside growth. Seldom are more than 

 two seen together, and quite frequently a single bird only with 

 its associates of other species. When approached, the Lincoln's 

 Sparrow often gives from a bush an anxious, rather sharp and 

 strong call-note, which it constantly repeats during the presence 

 of the intruder. 



122. Melospiza georgiana. Swamp Sparrow. 



A locally common summer resident and an uncommon fall 

 migrant, found breeding about the shores of the ponds and in 

 swampy lands throughout the valley region both in Jefferson 

 and Ivancaster. The shores of Cherry Pond furnish in June and 

 July from ten to fourteen singing males ; those of lyittle Cherry 

 Pond, from seven to twelve ; those of Weed's and Weeks's 

 ponds, from seven to nine. The song is heard from two or 

 three birds in the Davis swamp, from one or two in swampy 

 places along Israel's River, and at Fabyan's by the Ammonoo- 

 suc. The song period usually extends about a week into 

 August, and in the first week of October several birds have 

 been regularly heard again singing on the shores of Cherry 

 Pond. A few migrants appear in October on the Highland and 

 at the foot of the Highland. The latest records are October 13, 

 1903, and October 11, 1906. 



