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creditable performance it is inferior to that of the Black- 

 headed species. 



loo. Passcrina auiocna (Say) — Lazuli Bunting. 



R. H. Woicott records the Lazuli Bunting from Halsey, 

 I have no other records of its occurrence here, although it 

 may migrate regularly, probably not commonly, through 

 the region. It has been noted repeatedly as far east as 

 Lincoln. 



loi. Spiaa americana (Gmelin) — Dickcissel. 



I found Dickcissels throughout the summer of 1912, from 

 May 29 to August 13, and had seen them on June 8 and 9 

 and August 22 of the preceding year. Apparently the 

 birds breed in the river bottom, for it was there that I saw 

 them most commonly. Rarely they extended their wan- 

 derings over the first row of hills, and I have a female 

 which I secured in a pocket growth in such a situation on 

 August 22, 1911. 



102. Calainospica uidanocorys Stejneger — Lark Bunting. 



I have relatively few dates for the occurrence of the 

 Lark Bunting at Plalsey. On June 9, August 20, and Sep- 

 tember 2 and 3, 1911, and irregularly from May 15 to June 

 10, 1912, I saw the species. The 1911 records are of flocks, 

 some of them of rather large extent; May 19, 1912, one 

 flock was seen but the other records for that year refer to 

 individual or paired birds. I do not think that the species 

 nests commonly in this particular region although it may 

 breed at no great distance, as is evidenced by the numbers 

 of mated pairs that I saw. R. H. Woicott has found the 

 bird breeding here, however, and records it in July, 1908 

 and 1911. 



The call note of the Lark Buntings, a gentle "who-ee- 

 ee," with gradually rising inflection, was heard fre- 

 quently, and when given by a flock in chorus as the birds 

 rose from the ground before you or settled again a short 

 distance away was most pleasing. The true song, which 

 is given by the males, as I have heard it here and on the 

 high plains where the buntings breed abundantly, is, to 

 me, strongly suggestive of the notes of the Long-tailed 

 Chat. In addition to the similarity of the notes the sing- 

 ing bird frequently performs in a manner that also calls to 

 mind the same other feathered clown, and if the proceed- 



