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shot on an apple-tree in Newtonville ; it was filled with 
canker-worms. 
7 2. Plectrophanes nivalis, Meyer. — Snow-Bunt- 
ing. Abundant winter visitor, especially on the sea-shore. 
I have seen thousands rise at the report of my gun, on the 
Ipswich Sand-hills, where it feeds upon the seeds of the 
beach-grass. This species, with the preceding four and 
P. Canadensis^ are, while with us, always gregarious. Ar- 
rives in November; remains until April. 
73. Plectrophanes Lapponicus, Selby. — Lapland 
Long spur ^ Lapland Bunting. Generally rare, but common 
on the Ipswich Sand-hills, where it associates with the 
preceding; its note is different, being more shrill, but 
it has much the same habits. I have seen it with the 
Shore Larks, but have never met with it alone. Its pro- 
portion to the Snow-Bunting was about one in every 
hundred. 
74. Chondestes grammacus, Swain. — Larh Finch. 
Exceedingly rare or accidental in autumn. One taken in 
Gloucester, in 1845, by S. Jillson. 
75. Centronyx Bairdii, Baird. — Baird's Sparrow. 
It is with pleasure that I add this unique sparrow to the 
Catalogue of the Birds of Eastern Massachusetts. Previous 
to the capture of this there was but one specimen extant, 
which was one of the original birds captured by Audubon 
upon the banks of the Yellowstone Biver, July 26, 1843. 
My specimen, through the kindness of Professor S. F. 
Baird, has been compared with the original, which is in his 
possession, and pronounced identical ; but as mine differs 
somewhat from his, I have thought best to give a descrip- 
tion of it here.^ 
* “ It differs in color just as clear autumnal birds differ from worn 
breeding ones, — tints paler, markings more suffused, etc. The stripe 
along the top of head is paler, not as fulvous as in the type ; but in all 
essential points it seems to be the same bird.” — Professor S. F. Baird, 
in Epist. 
