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Genus Riiynciiophanes, Baiid. 



98. 7?. maccoiom (Lawr.) Baird. McCown's Longspur. Casual winter 

 visitant. (Champaign. Januaiy, 1877; three specimens. H. K. Coale, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, April, 1877, p. 52.) 



Genus Passekculus, Bonaparte. 



*99. P. sandwichensis savanna (Wils.) Ridgw. Savannah Span'ow. Sum- 

 mer sojourner, wintering southward. 



Genus Pocecetes, Baird. 



*100. P. (/ramiiteus (Gmel.) Baird, Bay- shouldered Bunting. Summer 

 sojourner; resident southward, where, however, it breeds sparingly. An inhab- 

 itant of fields and meadows, or open prairies. This, with other species of" sim- 

 ilar habits, as the Savannah and Yellow-winged Sparrows, are familiarly known 

 as "Grass-birds," or "Ground-birds." 



Genus Coturniculus, Bonaparte. 



ffisl*lOl. C. passerinus (Wilson) Bp. Yellow-winged Bunting. Summer 

 sojourner; occasionally a few wintering southward. This is the commonest of 

 the "Grass-birds," frequenting meadows, where well known from its peculiar 

 lisping song which resembles the rasping note of a grasshopper (locust); hence 

 known locally as "Grasshopper-bird " and " Cricket-bird," 



*102. C. hensloiri (Aud.) Bp. Henslow's Bunting. Summer sojourner; 

 in southern counties sometimes wintering. A common species on weedy pi-airies, 

 with habits much like the preceding, but with a different song (sounding like 

 2)il'-litt, or se'-icick,) which it utters while perched on the summit of a tall weed. 



*103. C. lecontei (Aud.) Bp. Leconte's Bunting. Chiefly transient, but 

 doubtless breeding in northwestern counties. Inhabits chiefly wet prairies, 

 where it keeps hidden in the rank grass aud sedges like the Ammodromi. 

 [Taken in Chicago, May 2, 1878, by C. A. White (H. K. Coale, in epist.); at 

 Riverdale, Cook county. May 13 and 17, 1875, by E. W. Nelson; and in Han- 

 cock county by C. K. Worfchen, "both in fall and spring, as well as during sum- 

 mer." (See Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, January, 1880, p. 32) J. 



Genus Ammodkomus, Swainson. 



*104. A. caudacutus nelso)ii, Allen. Nelson's Sharp-tailed Bunting. A 

 summer resident in northern counties, where it inhabits grassy marshes. It is 

 a recently discovered race, and its distribution is consequently not well made 

 out. It very likely winters in sheltered marshes in the southern portion of the 

 state. 



Genus Ciiondestes, Swainson. 



*105. C. gramm'ica (Say) Bp. Lark Bunting. Summer sojourner; entire 

 state, but partial to the semi- wooded districts. Easily distinguished from all 

 other ten-estrial sparrows (except the Chewink — P'lpUo erifthrophthalmus, 

 which is otherwise very different), by the white-tipped tail; usually seen along 

 roadsides. A sweet and indefatigable singer, surpassing the canary and every 

 native species in continuity and sprightliness of song, through which are inter- 

 spersed most pleasing trills and varied cadences. Nests indifferently on the 



