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Cahn: Status of Harris’s Sparrow 
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well indeed by Cooke (8), but practically all of his notes are for 
the country west and southwest of the area at present under dis- 
cussion. His data show the species to be a very rare straggler 
as far east as the Mississippi, as shown by the fact that he men- 
tions but two records each for Illinois and Wisconsin. With 
this introduction, the writer offers a brief review of the pub- 
lished records of Harris’s sparrow in Wisconsin and the neigh- 
boring states, aware that it is probably incomplete, but believ- 
ing that the most important records have been covered. 
The ornithological literature of the states east of the Missis- 
sippi river is comparatively silent regarding the Harris sparrow. 
Ridgway (24) states that he knows of but two records for Illi- 
nois, one in 1877, and the other in 1880, and mentions the fact 
that several examples have been taken in southern Wisconsin, 
near the Illinois line. Woodruff (28) refers to the records of 
Nelson (21) and Dunn (15), and adds that of Mr. Deane, who, 
on May 11, 1904, observed a male of the species feeding with 
a flock of ‘‘sparrows” the species of which, unfortunately, is not 
given. Cory (11) summarizes the reports of the preceding authori- 
ties, and adds the records of Polig (22) — a male and a female — 
and of Wyman (29) — a male — on October 13, 1907. 
Data for Michigan are brought together by Barrows (4) and 
consist of three records for the state up to 1912, two females and 
a male — an immature female on September 30, 1894, a male on 
October 12, 1894, and a female on February 22, 1900. Records 
for the other bordering states are even fewer in number. Roberts 
(26) records the species from Minneapolis, Minnesota, as occur- 
ring from September 25 to October 15, and during the second and 
third weeks in May. Hatch (16) reports the bird from Minne- 
sota, saying that it has been often seen in migration, and the 
only specific data given is that of May 11, 1885. Incidentally 
he says: “Nearly all the localities where it has been obtained have 
been along the course of streams and in the brush that fringes 
them.” Cooke (10) gives five spring and three fall records for 
the same state. In Iowa, Anderson (2) says that the species is 
a common migrant in the western and middle portions of the state, 
but rare and irregular in the eastern third. Seven records are 
given for the latter part of the state — four spring, one fall, and 
two general — but the exact localities are not mentioned. Coues 
