Cape Cod. Q-.B. Miller, Jr, 
Spiza americana. — A single immature male shot from a mixed flock of 
small Sparrows feeding in an asparagus bed, on September 30, 1889, is 
my only Cape Cod record of this species. 
Thoreau in speaking of this part of the Cape (‘Cape Cod,’ p. 120) 
says: “Of birds not found in the interior of the State — at least in my 
neighborhood— I heard, in Summer, the Black-throated Bunting (Frin- 
gilla Americana) amid the shrubbery.” This was in 1855 ( 1 * c *> P* 0 and 
it is very possible that the bird was more common there then than now. 
If the species breeds at all near Highland Light at present, it must be 
a very rare occurrence, as I utterly failed to detect it during the breeding 
season, although, having read Thoreau’s note, I was constantly on the 
lookout for it. Auk, VII. July, 1890, p. 2 xe f 
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