150 BIRDS OF OHIO. 
20%. (567.) JuNco HYEMALIS (Linn.). 104. 
Slate-colored Junco. 
Synonyms: Fringilla hyemalis. 
Snowbird, Eastern Snowbird, Black Snowbird, Common 
Snowbird, Junco, White-bill. 
Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838. 164, 183. 
This “Snowbird” is a winter resident over the whole 
state, but is not usually common during January and Feb- 
ruary in the extreme north. When it is present during 
these months it is pretty closely confined to the deeper 
stream gorges, where it finds food, and protection from the 
cold winds. In the central and southern parts of the state 
it may be found with the flocks of Tree Sparrows and Gold-. 
finches, well scattered over the country. There it may pass 
the night in the corn shocks. 
During the winter Junco eats weed and grass seeds al- 
most exclusively, only nine per cent. of its entire food being 
animal. There is so little grain eaten that it does not figure. 
Hence the Junco is a great aid to the agricultural inter- 
ests in the destruction of weeds. 
Junco appears in northern Ohio about the first of October 
and within a week has made his way to our southern bor- 
der. He leaves that border about the middle of April, often 
later, but tarries’ along the lake shore until the first of May. 
208. (575a.) PEUCHA ASTIVALIS BACHMANII (Aud.). — 
Bachman Sparrow. 
Synonyms: Fringilla bachmanii. 
Oak-wocods Sparrow. 
Henninger, Bulietin Michigan Orn. Club, II, 1898, 7. 
The first specimen was captured by C. M. Weed, August 
18, 1890, at Columbus. The specimens reported by Rev. 
Mr. Henninger in the above reference were taken on April 
23, and a second observed on May 3, 1897, at South Web- 
ster. Miss Laura Gano reports several on April 27, and 
later, on Grosbeck Hill, Avondale, and College Hill, Cin- 
cinnati. Leander S. Keyser sends a questionable record 
for Clarke county. The invasion has been from the south- 
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