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were secured in similar situations. Again, on May 6, 1879, I shot two 
specimens, and the next day obtained the eighth. Four had been taken 
on the 5th, by Mr. R. S. Williams. These specimens are all plainly typi- 
cal var. intermedia. Two individuals, however, have been taken, that 
show a loral pattern intermediate between this and var. leucophrys. 
This repeated occurrence of intermedia at Minneapolis, in Eastern Min- 
nesota, considerably extends its range, since the locality is far east of its 
ascribed regular habitat. 
The Eastern form also occurs here as an uncommon migrant, and Mr. 
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Trippe gives it as common and breeding in the west-central part of the 
State. 
4. Zonotrichia querula. Harris’s Finch. — This is now to be 
regarded as a regular, and at times common migrant. It is especially 
numerous in the fall, when the young birds, in their peculiar dress, are to 
be found in all open brushy places. A small proportion of the fall birds 
have the black hood, and are in most respects just like the spring birds. 
In the spring it passes quickly northward during the second and third 
weeks of May, and appears here again between September 25 and October 
15, when it is much less hurried in its movements. I have never heard 
any song from them except upon one occasion. That was in the fall, 
when a bird in the plumage of thW year uttered a low, continuous warble 
as it sat on the top of a brush-pile. This was repeated many times, and 
reminded one somewhat of the subdued singing of the Tree Sparrow, often 
heard in the early spring. 
5. Spizella pallida. Clay-colored Bunting. — One of our com- 
mon and characteristic Sparrows. Arrives the last week of April, breeds 
in the latter part of May and in June, and ret’res with the fall passage of 
Sparrows in September and October. 
6. Melospiza lincolni. Lincoln’s Finch. — Occurs at Minne- 
apolis during the migration. Common during the last week of September 
and the first week of October, 1876, and again at the same time in 1877. 
They frequent hedges, patches of weeds, borders of woods, and similar 
situations. 
7. Picoides arcticus. Arctic Woodpecker. — During the second 
week of July, 1877, I found this Woodpecker rather common about the 
North Pacific Junction, Carlton County. The timber in that locality is 
mostly evergreens, wliite-birch, and tamarack, with numerous tracts of 
dead trees. The birds had evidently bred there. The young at that time 
were nearly full grown, and associated together in twos and threes. They 
were quite tame, showing no fear either at noise or at one’s presence. In 
the young males taken, yellow feathers were already beginning to appear 
on the crown. At Minneapolis it is an uncommon winter visitant, but 
occasionally remains late in spring. I have seen a specimen taken here 
the second week in May. 
8. Sphyrapicus varius. Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. — Com- 
