TheOologist. 



Vol. . XXI. No. 1. Albion, N. Y., jANUARy, 1904. Whole No. 198. 



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Leconte's Sparrow. 



* From the author's proposed work on 

 Southern Minnesota Ornithology. 



A mmodrnmus Lerontcii. 

 Leconte's Sparrow has long been 



recorded in ornithological works ■ as 

 occurring in a few favorable and some- 

 what restricted localities in Minnesota. 

 For a period of years they have been 

 objServed in Freeborn, Big Stone' and 

 Grant counties and recently in Steele 

 county, while a number of distinguish' 

 ed ornithologists found thefee Spar- 

 rows and secured some' specimens' in 

 the vicinity of Minneapolis. 'The Rev. 

 P. B. Peabody found them breeding ih 

 the northern counties of the Red River 

 Valley. According to various 'tepOrts, 

 in Iowa to the south they occur only 

 as a migrant and in Manitoba onithc 

 north of us as a regular though rare 

 breeder. A number of we'll known 

 ornithologists of extensive observation 

 have found them' breeding 'in "this 

 Province in the vicinity of Reaburn. 

 I first made my acquaintance with the 

 Leconte Sparrow during the season of 

 1901, l)eing introduced to a number on 

 April l^lst, on this occasion I did "not 

 secure any specimens so am not posi- 

 tive of the identity although it is 

 (lotititlfss corn^ct for later iil'V^std ga- 

 llons under the most favorable oppor- 

 tunities proved them as such. '1'' ' 



Late in the afternoon of May 29th 

 found me near a narrow stripl of 

 marshy land through which extends 

 longitudinally a large ditch containing 

 two large areas of land of a similar 

 nattire. These marshes formerly pro- 

 duced a luxuriant growth of various 

 wild grasses, but lately have been 

 drained and so closely pastured that 

 now only a scant growth is perceivable 

 while in some places it is nearly de- 

 void of vegetation. The narrow con- 

 necting strip mentioned, however, has 

 firmer soil (being slightly higher) and 

 prodttces a good growth of rank grass. 



