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the Fox Sparrow spends much of its time on the ground, scratching and 

 rustling among the dry leaves. It comes into full song just before it 

 leaves, but at other times has only a slight chirp. [282] 



lOl. (134.) Spiza americana (Gm.) Bp. Black-throated Bunting. 



A summer resident. This bird used to arrive regularly about the first 

 of May, and leave toward the end of September, meanwhile being very 

 abundant. We could always find it, for example, in the fields, orchards, 

 and graveyards there formerly were along Fourteenth street between 

 N" street and Boundary. For several seasons one or more pairs bred 



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 Fig. -13.— Black-throated Bunting. 



regularly in the graveyard that occupied the second square south of the 

 Boundary on the right hand going north, the chip-chip-chee dice chee of 

 the males always saluting us as we passed to and from college. Xow, 

 however, the bird appears to have forsaken us, few if any having been 

 heard of for the past few years. We can hardly account for this. The 

 English Sparrows are scarcely numerous enough in the outskirts to 

 have driven the Buntings away, nor need the building up of the city 

 have-caused them to retire from the whole District, as they appear to 

 have done. Whatever the cause, it is one of the most notable changes 

 in the bird-fauna of the immediate vicinity of the city. [2S7J 



102. (135.) Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linn.) Corns. Eose-breasted Grosbeak. 



A rare summer visitant, seen at irregular intervals, and not to be 

 procured every season. Its periods of appearance and disappearance 

 we never noted. It doubtless breeds here, as we have known it to be 

 taken in July. It is found chiefly in high open woods, where there is 

 much undergrowth. During the carnival of 1882 the Bose-breasts were 

 conspicuously abundant, and mauy entered the city, where perhaps 



