164 FAUXA OF XEW EXGL_\XD. 



PASSERES. O.-CIXES. 



FRIXGILLID_1E. 



304. ]\Ielospiza lixcolxii Audubon Baird. 

 Lincoln's sparrow; Lincoln's finch. 



Fringilla Uncolnii Aud., Omith. biogr.. lS3-i, vol. 2. p. .535. pi. 



193. '•L.^RADOK." 



Peucaea Uncolnii Aud., Birds of Amer., 1S41, vol. 3. p. 116. pi. 

 177. 



Edges of dense thickets and tangled growth; nests on the ground. 



^Ie. — Rare spring and imeommon fall migrant: rare summer 

 resident ia extreme north CFt. Kent; c' said to have been taken at 

 Boothbay, July 14, and four birds at Bobson's Id., Aug. 9;. May 

 12- June 1; (summer); Sept. 8-Oct. 13. 



X. H. — Rare spring and tmcommon fall migrant I'onc-e reported 

 in summer, Xubanusit Lake, .July 2S, 1900, Thayerj. May 1-3- 

 26; (? summer); Sept. 7-0 ct. 4. 



Vt. — Rare migrant. 



!^L\ss. — Rare spring and uncommon faU migrant. 'May 7- 

 June 1; Sept. 12-Oct. 14 (Xov. 1). 



R.I. — Rare migrant, mainly in faU. (^Spring); Sept. 27. 



Coxx. — Rare spring and uncommon fall migrant. May 23; 

 Sept. 21-Oct. 3. 



305. ^Ielospiza geoegiaxa (Latham) Ridgway. 



Swamp sparrow. 



Ridg^-ay, Bull. .50, U. S. nat. mus., 1901, pt. 1, p. 382. 

 Fringilla georgiana Lath., Index omith., 1790, vol. 1, p. 460. 



"Ctril PR-VECEDEXTE," = "iX GeORGL\E AilERIC.AS'AE EyXERIORI- 

 BUS." 



Fringilla palustri-s WHs. Audubon, Omith. biogr., 1S39, vol. 5, 

 pi. 64. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 9, fig. 7-9. 



Swamps, marshes, and old fields; nests on the ground. 



Me. — L'ncommon migrant and local summer resident. Mar. 

 20, Bangor) April 6-Xov. 1.5. Eggs, INIay 31- June 3. 



