1915] 
Cahn: Status of Harris’s Sparrow 
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third and older one from Meridian for October 19, 1892. The 
Wisconsin Arbor and Bird Day Annual (27) cites various records 
from different localities, but as it is impossible to trace these 
to their source for verification, and as it is possible that some 
errors are contained therein, the writer passes over them with 
the mention of their existence. 
New Records 
Illinois 
Through the kindness of Mr. G. A. Abbott of Chicago, who 
has transcribed his notes on the Harris sparrow in Illinois for 
the writer’s use, the new records listed hereafter are offered. Mr. 
Abbott writes: “My records show that at no time did I observe 
more than two or three birds together.” These records are 
given from “Chicago and vicinity,” which area includes the 
territory bordered by an imaginary line drawn from Miller’s, 
Indiana, on the east, around through Joliet, Aurora, Wheaton, 
Libertyville, Waukegan and Lake Bluff. 
Wisconsin 
The data for Wisconsin which the writer has to offer are of 
interest for several reasons. From the foregoing accounts it 
will be noted that the published records are scattered and far 
between, and that there are but a few records from any of these 
states east of the Mississippi for any one season. During the 
past year the writer has had the opportunity of examining bird 
reports from many different parts of the state, and through these 
came six new records of the Harris sparrow for the spring of 1914. 
As these were but sight records, when the observer was not 
known personally to the writer, correspondence followed until 
the records were established to the writer’s mind beyond any 
reasonable doubt. Besides these six, the writer has two records 
of his own to offer — one a “sight,” the other a “collected” record. 
The following notes are offered on the latter. 
On May 9, 1914, the writer shot a full plumaged male Harris 
sparrow at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The bird, which was the 
only one of the species seen, was at the edge of a willow thicket, 
