Passer ina ciris . 
North Truro, Mass. 
1891 . Beneath one of the apple trees about the house, under a 
May 31. grape arbor, in a bed of dandelions, feeding on the dandelion 
seeds, we saw a beautiful male Nonpar iel. Mr , Small cays it 
appeared on the 27th and had been seen daily since, always in 
or near the dandelion beds. It stayed until the afternoon of 
June 2nd but was apparently gone on the morning of the 3rd. 
It was very tame but easily startled by noise when it would 
fly up into the apple trees. This bird was doubtless an "es- 
cape" from one of the steamers which ply between Boston and 
Savanna for these vessels pass within a mile or two of Small's 
and at this season or a little earlier they usually carry large 
numbers of Nonpariels consigned to the Boston dealers in live 
birds. 
