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and a female. Audubon named this species after his young friend, Spencer F. Baird. 

 Coues says special interest attaches to this case, for the bird was not only the first 

 one ever dedicated to Baird but was the last one named, described and figured by 

 Audubon, and the plate of it completes the series of five hundred plates in his 

 octavo edition of Birds of North America. Bent, 1901, p. 329; Baird's sparrows 

 were scattered about over the prairie. Abbott, 1916, No. 94, p. 4; a weedy stretch 

 of prairie was the one place where Baird's sparrows were common ; there were a 

 dozen trilling males in the space of forty acres. Judd, 1917, p. 23; common summer 

 resident. 



The Agricultural College Museum has a bird without data, and the 

 Williams Collection contains one collected October 7, 1914. 



On June 4, 1921, Mr. Elmer Judd and I made a long trip by automobile 

 north from Cando to Snyder, Rock, and other small lakes. We were in 

 quest of this species, but it was not until passing many of their old haunts 

 that we at last found a male singing by the roadside near St. Johns. From 

 here we drove north to the United States boundary line, and there saw our 

 second bird. These were the only specimens seen by me in life. 



221. Ammodramus savaiinanun hunaculatus Swainson. Western Grass- 



hopper Sparrow. 



Allen, 1875, p. 57; common at intervals from the Missouri to Montana. Bailey, 

 1916, p. 16; mentions the song of the grasshopper sparrow in the Devils Lake region. 

 Judd. 1917, p. 23; not common, but probably breeds. Freeman, 1918, p. 14; fairly 

 common summer resident. 



In 1920 this species was seen but once, August 9, in a prairie pasture near 

 Bottineau. On June 17, 192 1, I secured a fine specimen on a high prairie 

 plateau in the Bad Lands a few miles north of Medora. 



222. PasserherbiiJus hensloivi occidentalis (Brewster). Western Henslow's 



Sparrow. 



Abbott. 1880. p. 984; found near Pembina. Tuly, 1879. CouES, 1897, p. 4: Bell 

 shot a bunting which resembles Henslow's, but we have no means of comparing it 

 at present. Schmidt, 1904; nests in central and eastern part of the state. Schmidt, 

 1920, p. 320; summer resident. 



The species was not seen in the field, nor are there specimens in any 

 of the collections in the state that I examined. 



223. Passerherbulns lecontei (Audubon). Leconte's Sparrow. 



CouES, 1878, p. 587; a small colony was near the Mouse River on August 9, 

 1873, and with great difficulty five specimens were secured; later, September 9, the 

 bird was found again and a sixth specimen secured at Long Coteau River. Abbott, 

 1880, p. 084; very common in sloughs near Peniibina, Tuly, 1879. Allen. 1886, pp. 489-490; 

 as is well known, Leconte's sparrow was described by Audubon in his Birds of 

 America, VH, p. 338, Fl. 488, from a specimen obtained on the Upper Missouri in 

 1843. Audubon says he procured several specimens and mentioned especially one, 

 a fine male, shot by J. G. Bell on the 24th of May near Fort Union, North Dakota. 

 A specimen in the Maximilian Collection in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory was no doubt taken by him on his sojourn at Fort Union ten years before. 

 Audubon records this specimen as still in excellent condition. Judd, 1917, p. 24; 

 common migrant and thought to breed here. 



