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counted fourteen of them, but probably missed some, be- 

 cause they were very wary, not permitting a close approach. 



Lynds Jones. 

 A January Chewinfc {Pipilo erythrophthalmus). To-day, 

 January 26, 1902, I observed a Chewink in company with a 

 flock of Slate-colored Juncos and Tree Sparrows. I have 

 noticed the abundance, or rather the great number of Blue 

 Jays this winter; also the six or eight Red-headed Wood- 

 peckers which have remained in one section of a woods. 

 Last fall I was unable to identify the dusky headed ones 

 until Dr. C. C. Abbott straightened me out by informing 

 me that they were the immature Red-heads. I recorded 

 fifteen species during the walk, the best I have done for a 

 long while. Thos. D. Keim. 



Wissahickon, Philadelphia. 



SOME FRANKLINVILLE FRINGILLINES. 



[With apologies to Bro. R. R., who is, after all, a very good fellow.] 



Franklinville, O., Jan. 16, 1902. 



Dear Mr. EDITOR: Thinking your readers might be in- 

 terested in a contribution from an humble fringillologist, I 

 append a sample horizon for publication in the twentieth 

 (current) volume of the Ancient Murrelet. 



Realizing many years ago the utter futility of trying to 

 compass the whole field of ornithology, I settled upon the 

 Fringillidae for special work. This was not so hopeless an 

 undertaking in the crude days of the Trinomialists, some 

 twenty years since; but now that science has made such 

 colossal strides, numbering, as it does, the sub-subter-sub, 

 and infra-subter- sub-species of sparrows in America alone 

 by the thousands, I find myself obliged to confine my atten- 

 tion to the reporting of a winter's day, and a very cold one 

 at that. 



