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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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I/O THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL *Pine Siskin ; Pine Finch (Spiniis piniis). A more or less common fall and winter visitant. On two occasions it has been found nesting in the Lower Hudson Valley, at Sing Sing, May 25, 1883 (Fisher, Bull. N. O. C, VIII, 1883), and at Cornwall-on-Hudson, May 12, 1887 (Allen, Auk, IV, 1887, P- 284). (See group, third floor). *Snowflake ; Snow Bunting (Passcrina niz'alis). On Long Island this bird is an abundant winter resident on the sand-flats near the ocean (Dutcher, MS). In the Lower Hudson Valley it is much less common. Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponiciis). A rare winter resident; some- times found with flocks of the preceding, but more frequently associated with Horned Larks. Chestnut-collared Longspur (Calcarius oniatus). "Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains south to Texas." A specimen of this western species was taken at Long Island City, February 16, 1889 (Hendrick- son. Auk, VI, 1889, p. 190).
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Fig. 24. Vesper Sparrow. *Vesper Sparrow ; Grass Finch : Bay-winged Bunting iPocecetes grain- ineus). A common summer resident, arriving about April i, and remaining until the latter part of November. Ipswich Sparrow (Passerculus princcps). A common winter resident, confined strictly to the immediate vicinity of the coasts, where it is found from the middle of October to the first of April (Dutcher, Auk, III, 18S6, p. 441)- *Savanna Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis savanna). This species is here a rare summer resident and abundant migrant, arriving about April i and departing in November and December. It breeds at Morristown, N. J. (Thurber) and is said to remain throughout the winter in the salt-marshes ?t Bridgeport, Conn. (Averill) Braislin, (Auk, XVI, 1899, p. 192) records it from Garden City, L. I., July 17, 1897. and Flatbush, L. I., Jan. 30, 1895.

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