iiircia of Magdalen islands. 
Dr. L. B. Bishop. 
42. Spizella pusilla. Field Sparrow.— A pair of this species in 
worn breeding plumage were taken on Entry Island July 8; they evidently 
had a nest in the immediate vicinity. This is, I believe, the most north- 
ern record of the breeding of this species on . the Atlantic coast. 
Auk, VI. April, 1889. p.148 
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Field Sparrow ( Spizella pusilla ) . — In the large flight of 
migrants noted under the preceding species, were also quite a num- 
ber of Field Sparrows. This is certainly a very northerly record 
for them, the place where they were observed being about eighty 
miles northwest from Ottawa. A few days previously Mr. E. 
White had seen one or several near this city. Despite two seasons’ 
diligent searching for them here in summer, I have never been 
able to find one. How then can they turn up in migration, appar- 
ently in the company of birds having come from further north, 
seems hard to explain. 
X w IV, qtf 
213. Spizella pusilla. Field Sparrow. — Summer resident, some- 
times abundant, April 16 to October 14; earliest record April 4, 1890; 
breeds (May 23 to June 5). 
