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"Bloomington, February 2, 1S83; Mr. Balmer reports it aa a winter resident in 

 Knox County ; Judse McBiide gives it as a rare winter visitor in Dekalb County; 

 Mr. Byrkit makes tlie same note with reference to Laporte County. Mr. Stock- 

 bridge notes it as a regular winter visitor, but rare in Allen County. He has a 

 pair in his collection l;iken in 1880 near Fort AVayne. Dr. J. T. Scovell has three 

 specimens which he took near Terre Haute in the winter of 1881-2. They were 

 in company with a flock of Horned Larks. 



195. Calcarius pictus (Swniim.). Smith's Loxgspck; Paixted Longspir. 



Migrant, common in the vicinity of Lake Michigan, at times at least. " Nel- 

 son observed this species as a common migrant on the borders nf Lake County, 

 Indiana, where even seventy-live were seen in a Hock." i Brayton. Trans. Ind. Hort. 

 Soc, 187<J, p. 121.) 



Gexis POOCJ.TES Baird. 



'196. Poocaetes gramineus iOmA.). Vesper Sparrow; Bay-win-gei> Bi-ntinr : Grass 



Finch. 



Common summer resident. Breeds. Possibly resident in the extreme southern 

 ■part of the .State. In Franklin County they are present some years from the 

 middle of February to early November. They first arrive in small Hocks, but pair 

 about April 10. They are beautiful songsters, their sweetest songs swell forth at 

 twilight, associated with the notes of insect life, the glow of the lireHy, the call of 

 the Whip-poor-will. It is the vesper hymn, hence its author is known as the 

 Vesper Sparrow. Many pretty things have been said of this plain, sweet-voiced 

 finch. It has been called "Tlie poet of the plain, unadorned pastures." John 

 Burrows has used his gifted )>en to good advantage in describing that which 

 .charms one in this well known bird. 



Genus PASSER Brissox. 

 197. Passer domestica (Linn.). European House Sparrow; " English Sparrow." 



r 1 Yn^^i 



English Sparrow, male. 



