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72. Spizella monticola. Tree Sparrow. — Common winter resi- 

 dent. Seen as lute as April 10. 



73. Spizella socialis. Chipping Sparrow. — Common migrant, 

 and breeds. First seen April 1 1 . 



74. Spizella pusilla. Field Sparrow. — Common. Arrives April 

 12. In song April 14. Breeds. 



75. Zonotrichia albicollis. White-throated Sparrow. — Com- 

 mon migrant. First seen April 3, and common till the first week in May. 



76. Zonotrichia leucophrys. White-crowned Sparrow. — Not 

 common. First noted May 5. They were noted remaining about two 

 weeks after that date. 



7 7. Zonotrichia querula. Harris's Sparrow. — Previous to mv 

 visit to Warrensburg, I had spent three weeks at Mound City, in Linn 

 County, Kansas. This is about a hundred miles southwest of Warrens- 

 burg. On my arrival at Mound City, on March 8, I found this species 

 very abundant and in whder plumage. They frequented low thickets, 

 near water, and were rather shy. On sunny days they were constantly 

 singing in a strain very like that of the White-throats, but a little more 

 prolonged, and perhaps louder. They were rather shy, but I obtained 

 without difficulty a series of about forty birds, all, as I believe, in complete 

 winter dress. About the last of March they began to moult. 



On my arrival at Warrensburg 1 found the birds quite common, but 

 not as abundant as at Mound City. They were all moulting, and had 

 much the same habits as the White-crowned Sparrows, being in small par- 

 ties of three or four, and frequenting similar localities to those spoken of 

 above. They were still common April 27, and had assumed the breeding 

 plumage. I took some as late as May 5. That they winter in Southern 

 Kansas I have no doubt, as they were well known to many hunters, who 

 spoke of them as " Winter Chippies." 



78. Chondestes grammica. LARK Finch. — Very common. Ar- 

 rives from the middle to the last of April. Breeds. 



79. Passerella iliaca. Fox Sparrow. — Abundant, migrant, and 

 probably a winter resident. 



80. Euspiza americana. Black-throated Bunting. — Common 

 summer resident. Arrives about May 1. 



81. Goniaphea ludoviciana. RoSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. — Not 

 very common. First noted May 1. Probably breeds. 



82. Cyanospiza cyanea. Indigo Bird. — Common migrant and 

 summer resident Arrives about May 1. Females taken from this region 

 show a decided blue tinge, ami tin- males are very intense in coloring. 



83. Cardinalis virginianus. Cardinal Redbird. — Common and 

 resident. The birds of this species taken here are very much higher- 

 colored than the same species taken in New Jersey, and this 19 particularly 

 noticeable among the females, which often have many bright red feathers 

 Btriping the buffish color of the breast. The Redbird in this region is one 

 of the familiar species about houses and gardens. 



