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haps all the commonly wood-inhabiting species enumerated below, breed 

 sparingly among the low willows that grow along Crow Creek. 



TROGLODYTIDjE. 



1. Troglodytes aedon. Frequent. 



SYLVICOLID.Eh 



2. Dendrceca aestiva. Two or three specimens obtained. Not 

 common. 



3. Wilsonia pusilla. Several specimens obtained. Rather more fre- 

 quent than the last. 



4. Icteria virens. One specimen obtained, which was the only one seen. 



HIRUNDINID^J. 



5. Hirundo horreorum. Frequent near the town. 



6. Hirundo lunifrons. Moderately common. 



7. Collurio ludovicianus. Moderately common. 



ALAUDID.2B. 



8. Eremophila alpestris. Common. 



FRINGILLID.E. 



9. Chrysomitris tristis. Several small flocks seen flying oyer. 



10. Plectrophanes Maccownii. Abundant. In its notes and mode of 

 flight not readily distinguishable from P. ornatus, for which species we at 

 first mistook it. The latter was not observed at this locality. 



11. Chondestes grammaca. Common. 



12. Pocecetes gramineus. Abundant. All the specimens obtained 

 were very palely colored, the young of the year as well as the adult. 



13. Passerculus savanna. Common. 



14. Spizella socialis. Abundant. Very faintly colored, the young 

 especially, and hardly distinguishable from S. pallida. 



15. Spizella pallida. Common. 

 10. Spizella pusilla. Common. 



17. Calamospiza bicolor. Common. 



18. Cyanospiza amcena. Not common. 



19. Goniaphea melanocephala. Not common. 



ICTERIDJE. 



20. Molothrus pecoris. Rather common, associating with Xantlio- 

 cephalus icterocephalus. 



21. Xanthocephalus icterocephalus. Several small flocks met 

 with along Crow Creek. 



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