280 niRDS OF ILLINOIS. 



Only one species of this southeni geuus is kiio\m to occur in 

 Illinois. Another however, niny he expected, at least as a straggler, 

 and for this reason the comparative characters of the two are n'Vt-n 

 here. 



1. p. sativalis. Ailull: Ab<iv>' rcililisli tuown. Btn-aki'il with (jniy. iiiiil UKiuilly KiKitinl 

 uu 111.- I.ii.-k with lilii.-k; boui--iitli ihill huffy. whitish ■m the bully. Mlildle tull-foatht-rs 

 witliuut (lUttiiic't burs. 

 a. imliralit. Crown stroakod with blackish, iiml bliu'k streakH on biiok alwayx 



very dlstlnot. Hab. FlorKIa and lower Goorela. 

 p. hacliiiiaiiii. Crown without blaok strooks. and black streaks on back frciiucntly 



obsolete: general coloration much nior« "sandy" above, and clearer, or less 



dinjry. bulT below. Ifnli. North and South Carolina, west to easlorn Texas, north 



to soulhi-rn Illinois and Indiana. 

 J. P. oassini. Above brownish Kray.spottcil with jfrayish brown and black, but with no 

 ruRly: lower imrts n.'arly uniform bni\rt>ish white or iiale brownish gray. Miildle 

 tall-fcnthers very distln.Mly barrel with dusky. Ilali. Southwestern t'. S.. north to 

 Kansas. 



Peucsea aestivalis bachmanii (Aud.) 



BACHMAN'S 8FABB0W. 



Popular synonyms. Illinois Sparrow; Oak-wood Sparrow: Baohmnn's Finch. 



7Vi(c.(n asln'iili.t lliDow. .\m. Nat.. .July 1872.430 (Wabash Co.. Illinois): Ann. X. Y. 

 Lye. X.Jan. l«74.373ido.); I'roe. Boston Soc. xvi, Feb. 18. 1874. 3«8. SKldo.. summer 

 rosld.): Bull. Nult. Orn. Club.iii. Oct. 1878. 104 ("extremely local and uuite rare"i.— 

 Nelson. Bull. Essex. Inst.. ix.l877. 30.43 (Mt. Carniel, Wabash Co.. and Fox Prairie. 

 Richland Co.. Illinoisl. 



I'liiidii illiiioi'iisis Rruow. Bull. Nult. Orn Club. Oct. 1879. 219 (southern Illlinois to 

 ciMitral Texas). 

 Pmciea tesliralis il hiohisis RiDow. Nom. N. .\m. B. 1881. No. aOa.— CoUKS, 2d Check 



List. 1882. No. 252. 

 PfiKiea imlifaliH liarliinaiii Bhew.st. Auk. ii. Jan. 188,'j.li»i. 



Hab. Open woods, old fleUls. etc., in semi-prairie districts of the lower Mississippi 

 Valley and Unlf States; north in summer to Richland, Lawrence, and Wabash counties. 

 Illinois: Knox and Monroe counties.* Indiana; and Nelson county. Kentucky; cast to 

 Lookout Mountain. Tennessee. Alabama, anil the Carollnas; southwest to "Lower Cross 

 Timbers" and "Post Oak Woods" of Cook county, Texas. 



8p. Chad. Adult. Above sandy ferruginous, indistinctly streaked with light nsh- (fray, 

 those streaks broadest on the back and middle line of the crown; interscaiiulars sonic- 

 times marked with narrow central streaks of black. Outer .surface of the wiUKs light fer- 

 ruginous, the greater coverts less reddish luid edged with paler; tertials dusky brown, 

 bordered terminally with pale reddish ashy : outer surface of the secondaries ferruginous. 

 Tall uniform grayish brown, the edges of the feathers more ashy. Sides of the head and 

 neck, throat, jugulum. and entire sides, deep dingy buir. this color most distinct across 



•In a letter dated Aprils?. 1884. Professor David 8. Jordan. President of the Indiana 

 State University, writes me as follows: "It may perhaps Interest you to know that two 

 specimens of JViicd'ii <rs/ira?is idiiiocH.iis have been taken at Blooralngton (April 24). 

 They were shot in a brush heap." 



