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Auk, XIII, July, 1896, r>,;?6/, 
The Nonpariel at Longwood, Massachusetts. — On June 5, 1896, Henry 
V. Greenough brought me a male Painted Finch ( Passerina ciris ) which 
he had shot at about 8 a.m. The bird was in perfect plumage, its wings 
and tail showing apparently no cage wear and its feet in perfect condition. 
I examined its stomach which contained white gravel, suggesting cage 
gravel (although the bird had been seen upon a gravel walk where I found 
the same kind of gravel), a white worm, a small amount of dark gravel 
and a few seeds (not canary seed), and the bird was also quite fat. Its 
testes were very much enlarged. 
The bird uttered only a few notes on alighting and when started, like 
chit-chit. He was seen the day before, and although fairly tame at first, 
became quite wild from being watched. 
The probability of course is strongly in favor of this being an escaped 
cage bird, but at the same time, the weather having been fair and warm 
for a week, this bird might have strayed from southern climes. — Reginald 
Heber Howe, Jr., Long-wood, Mass. 
