AVES. 161 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



FRINGILLIDAE. 



Mass. — Common migrant and summer resident. (Mar. 13, 

 24) April 5-Nov. 25 (Dec. 31, 1869, Watertown). Eggs, May 

 12- June 26 (2d brood ?). 



R. I. — Common migrant and summer resident. April 4-Oct. 

 17. Eggs, May 19-June 15. 



Conn. — Common migrant and summer resident; rare winter 

 resident. April-Nov. (winter). 



299. Spizella breweri Cassin. 

 Brewer's sparrow. 



Cass., Proc. acad. nat. sci. Pliila., 1856, vol. 8, p. 40. "Western 

 North America, California, New Mexico." Ridgway, Bull. 

 50, U. S. nat. mus., 1901, pt. 1, p. 326. 



Emberiza 'pallida Swains. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1841, vol. 

 3, pi. 161 {fide Ridgway). 



Prairies; nests on the ground. 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Watertown, Dec. 15, 1873. 



300. Spizella pusilla (Wilson) Bonaparte. 



Field sparrow; Ground sparrow; Huckleberry -bird. 



Ridgway, Bull. 50, U. S. nat. mus., 1901, pt. 1, p. 318. Egg, 

 Capen, 1886, pi. 10, figs. 3, 4. 



Fringilla pusilla Wils., Amer. ornith., 1810, vol. 2, p. 121, pi. 16, 

 fig. 2. " Pennsylvania .... NORTH and South Carolina.... 

 Georgia." Audubon, Ornith. biogr., 1834, vol. 2, pi. 139. 



Bushy fields; nests on the ground or in low bushes. 



Me. — Uncommon summer resident in southern counties. April 

 7-Oct. 1. 



N. H. — Locally common summer resident north to White Mt. 

 valleys April 3-Oct. Eggs, June 12. 



Vt. — Locally common summer resident. April 4-fall (Dec. 25, 

 1908, Clarendon). Eggs, July 10. 



