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Notes on the Winter Birds of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. — At a 
meeting of the Nuttall Club during the winter of 1892, Mr. O. Bangs 
reported the presence on Cape Cod of two birds which, so far as I know, 
have not hitherto been recorded as regular winter residents of any portion 
of New England. In a short visit to the Cape, last December, I found not 
only the birds reported by Mr. Bangs, but also two other species which 
are, I believe, unrecorded as winter residents of New England. The 
birds, noted were the following. 
Spizella pusilla. Field Sparrow. — I saw a flock of eight Field 
Sparrows on the edge of the West Barnstable marshes, Dec. 31, 1894. 
Mr. Bangs reported them in Dec. i892.Atlk, XII, April, 1896, p. <S8. 
The only published lecords I am aware of for the wintering in New 
England of any of the birds mentioned above (except of course of the 
Rough-legged Hawk) are the two following for the Field Sparrow — 
Auk, IV, p. 259 and X, p. 205. Four Field Sparrows were seen by Mr. 
Tieat near Hartford, Conn., in January, 1886, and one in January, 1887. 
The second record is for Massachusetts ; a bird was seen by Mr. Torrey at 
Welle sley, Dec. 19, 1892, and again Jan. 8, 1893. 
Cape Cod is, of course, exceptionally well fitted to shelter these birds 
in winter, as snow rarely lingers there for more than a few days and 
because there are extensive marshes which are always opened by the tide. 
It IS probable, however, that similar conditions exist in Rhode Island and 
in Connecticut, so that it would be worth while for observers in those 
States to investigate the marshes there, unless indeed some, or all, of the 
above-mentioned birds are already known to winter along the Sound. 
Ralph Hoffmann, Belmont, Mass. 
April, 1896, p. 
The Field Sparrow in Arlington, Mass., in Winter. — On February 14, 
1902, I saw a small sparrow on the Arlington Heights which I am confi- 
dent was a Field Sparrow {Spizella pusilla). I watched him at close 
range through my glass for fifteen or twenty minutes, and got all his mark- 
ings, including the peculiar color of his bill. In size he was distinctly 
smaller than a Junco with which he was feeding, while the Tree Sparrow, 
the only other bird I know with which I could have confused him, is 
larger. 
I have also seen, off and on all winter, two Red-winged Blackbirds 
(Agelaius phceniceus), four or five Swamp Sparrows (Melospiza georgiana), 
and one Long-billed Marsh Wren (Cistothorus paluslris) in the Fresh Pond 
Marshes, Cam bridge, ^M a 
s. — Richard S. Eustis, Cambridge , Mass. 
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