Melospiza lincolni. 
1892 Mass. 
October Arlington. 
me to-night that he found a Lincoln's Pi nch. this P. M. bathing 
in a little pond in the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, in company 
with Song and a few Swamp Sparrows. It is the biggest bird mi- 
gration in these parts that I ever saw. Norton'_s Woods are full 
of birds. 
(Letter from Walter Faxon, oct. 10. 1892.) 
From Mr. Hoffmann'S and my ezperience (chiefly in Cape 
Breton) we regard the Lincoln's Finch as a more phlegmatic bird 
than the Song Sparrow- shy when once alarmed, but, when he does 
show himself, much less nervous than f asciata . 
(Letter from Walter Faxon, Oct. 7. 1892.) 
