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feature of the bird fauna. Its note is destinctive, and its 

 colors attractive. I find a note in the O. & O. VoL XIII, p. 

 95, of the capture of two specimens of this Longspur at 

 Garretsville, O., Jan. 29, 1888, by Mr. Clark P. Streator. 

 The note is interesting from so far east. 



538. Calcarius oraatus. Chestnut-colored Longspur. 



If we would learn more of this interesting Longspur we 

 must work on the plains, for it very rarely reaches the 

 Mississippi river in its eastern movement. Mr. Donald 

 finds it in winter as a common bird at Decatur, Texas. 

 Once only have I found it at Gi'innell, Iowa ; during the 

 spring of 1887 when there seemed to be a general eastward 

 movement of ail species. Then a flock of several hundred 

 remained about Grinnell for several weeks. Many were in 

 full plumage and full song. 



539. Rhijnchophanes mccoicnii. McCown's Longspur. 

 Like the last this is a bird of the plains. Mr. Donald 



finds it abundantly at Decatur, Texas. It was one of the 

 species which wandered east during the spring of 1887, 

 reaching Grinnell, Iowa, March 3. The flock of about 20 

 departed the 8th. 



5-40. Fooccetes <iramineus. Vesper Sparrow. 



As we have reason to expect", this wide-spread species is 

 pretty fully reported upon, and is evidently well known to 

 all. It is an abundant summer resident at Milwaukee, 

 Meridian, and Waukesha, Wis., as reported by Messrs. 

 Strong, Clark, and Howe, also at Lansing, N. Y. But only 

 common at Madison, Wis., Waynesburgh, Penn., Rockford, 

 Ills., and Grinnell, Iowa ; while at Decatur. Texas, it is 

 only a tolerably common winter visitor. It is abundant at 

 Oberlin, O., during the migrations, but I have not found it 

 breeding. 



51:2a. Amniodramus sandwichensis savanna. Savanna 

 Sparrow. 



At Meridian and Madison, Wis., this is a rare summer 

 resident. At Lansing, N. Y., common ; at Portland, Conn., 

 as found by Mr. John H. Sage, common in summer but 

 abundant in fall ; at Sans Souci, N". C, tolerably common 



