800 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



E. Brewster); "already at Mackinac Island"' (S. E.White); eats grain, often very 

 extensively; especially peas, vegetables and insects; drives away our native birds; 

 is very filthy about houses; a three cent bounty is thinning its ranks, and often, 

 though incorrect determination, the ranks of our sparrows, etc. (see bulletin No. 

 62, Michigan Experiment Station, or report of the Michigan State Board of Agri- 

 culture, 1890, p. 275); the amendment to the Sparrow law, made in 1893, requiring 

 that Sparrows must be killed in winter or no bounty will be paid, removes the 

 objection to the law; breeds abundantly; it is reported that thirty young may be 

 reared from a single pair in a season; nests about cornices, etc., about houses and 

 concealed places, "often in Grand Rapids in trees, the nests being bulky and open 

 on the side" (R. H. Wolcott); eggs four or five, occasionally six, very rarely nine; 

 soiled white, specked with brown. For full account of this bird-pest see excellent 

 report by the United States Department of Agriculture. This bird is said to eat 

 bots in horse droppings and so to lessen the number of botflies. 



Genus AMM0DRAMU8 Swain. 



232-o42a (227). Amniodramiis sandwichensis savauna (PFtVs.). *Savanna Sparrow. 



Not uncommon; migrant; Dr. Atkins took it May 10, 1882; "not sure that it 

 breeds in Michigan" (A. H. Boies); "have taken it at Heisterman's Island in 

 Saginaw Bay, in fall and believe it a migrant'' (N, A. Eddy); "have taken one 

 specimen at Port Sanilac, do not think it breeds'' (W. A. Oldfield); "Monroe Co.. 

 but does not breed, seeing a bird in summer is not sure proof that it breeds " 

 (Jerome Trombley); "it is evidently a transient" (Dr. M. Gibbs). 



233-o46-(234:). Ammodramus sayaiinarum passerinus (Wils.). Grasshopper 

 Sparrow ; Yellow-winged Sparrow ; Cricket Sparrow. 



Summer resident: "southern part of the state" (Prof. J. A. Allen); " breeds" (Gibbs" 

 Birds of Michigan); "rare and breeds at Port Sanilac'' (W. A. Oldfield); "Hillsdale 

 and Lenawee Counties" (A, H. Boies); "increasingly abundant at Plymouth" (J. 

 B. Purdy); Jerome Trombley has found it breeding in a meadow in Monroe Co.; 

 "is becoming very common as the forests are cleared off" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "I have 

 seen them at Ishpeming and Sault Ste. Marie late in May, and have found them 

 common in Wayne and Kent Counties"' (E. W. Durfee); two of its common names 

 come from its stridulating note. 



234-o'i7-(23(>). Amniodramns henslowii (Aud.). Henslow's Sparrow ; Henslow's 

 Bunting. 



Rare; Northwestern Indiana, Lake Co (Butler's Birds of Indiana); included in 

 the list of Michigan birds by both Boies and Covert. Mr. A. W. Butler thinks that 

 this and also Leconte's Sparrow, Avimodramus leconteii, will both be found to 

 belong to our Michigan fauna. 



235-549a-(241), Ammodramns caudaciitiis nelsoui Allen. Nelson's Sparrow ; 

 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Finch. 



Rare; two specimens reported taken October .">. 1378, in Gibbs' Michigan Birds; 

 reported from Northwestern Indian, where perhaps it is a summer resident (But- 

 ler's Birds of Indiana). 



