144 BIRDS OF OHIO. 
198. (546.) CoTURNICULUS SAVANNARUM  PASSERINUS 
(Wils.). 96. 
Grasshopper Sparrow. 
Synonyms: Coturniculus passerinus, Ammodramus savannarum 
passerinus, Fringilla passerina. 
Yellow-winged Sparrow, Quail Sparrow, Cricket Sparrow. 
Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 164. 
This little sparrow is local in its distribution, but may 
be fairly common in suitable regions, over the entire state. 
Its diminutive size and weak voice serve to hide it from all 
but the unusually interested. It seldom essays a higher 
perch than the top of a fence-post, and is usually content 
with a weed stalk or bunch of grass. It nests on the ground 
in meadows or neglected fields. 
The food consists of insects and weed seeds and grain, 
but almost half of the whole food consists of iniurious in- 
sects, and the grain is waste. The seeds are wholly of injur- 
ious weeds and grasses. As a destroyer of injurious insects 
this sparrow leads all the sparrows and equals some of the 
larger birds, like the Robin, which are supposed to feed 
largely upon insects and worms. 
It appears in Ohio during the last week in April and re- 
mains until the first of October. During this time it must 
be looked for on the uplands, not in low places. 
199. (547.) AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII (Aud.). 97. 
Henslow Sparrow. 
Synonyms: Coturniculus henslovii, C. henslowi, Emberiza hen- 
slowii. 
, Henslow’s Bunting, Henslow’s Grasshopper Sparrow. 
Jones, Auk, XII, 1895, 241. 
Dr. Wheaton gives it in his catalogue of 1882, citing ref- 
erences to Audubon, Birds Am., III, 1841, 76, and his own 
publications based upon Audubon’s statement and upon a 
supposed specimen which Dr. Wheaton collected in the vi- 
cinity of Columbus in 1856, which proved to be the young 
of A. s. passerinus. Dr. Wheaton eliminates these records 
and says,“In all probability Henslow’s Bunting will be found 
not uncommon in restricted localities, particularly in the 
