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138. AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM AUSTRALIS Maynard. 
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. (546) 
A rather rare summer resident in each county. April 17, 1888, two or 
three seen near Terre Haute. 
139. CHONDESTES GRAMMACUS GRAMMACUS (Say). LARK SPARROW. (552 
Summer resident, not common: most often seen in old pastures or along 
roads. Have seen it in Carroll, Vigo, and Monroe counties, 
May 13, 1883, saw one in edge of field on road east of Delphi. May 8, 
1884, saw several on prairie in Tippecanoe Township, Carroll County. May 
15, saw two or three between Camden and Delphi; April 28, 1885, noted. 
In Vigo County it usually arrives from the south early in April; in 1888, 
two males collected, April 18. at the Five-mile Pond. 
This finch is evidently becoming more numerous than formerly. 
140. ZonorrRicHIA LEUCOPHRYS LEUCOPHRYS (J. R. Forster). 
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. (554) 
A common spring and fall migrant, in the spring about the first of April 
and passing on north by the middle of May. Most common about thickets 
of undergrowth and along old unkempt fence-rows. 
Carroll County: May 3, 1878, two taken; May 8, 1883, very 
y common; | 
March 30, 1884, a good many in a deadening near Chas. Bowman’s, south- 
west of Camden; April 13. several in my yard in Camden; April 9, 1885, 
saw and heard three or four near Deer Creek; April 22. saw one. Equally 
common in the other counties. 
Vigo County: April 29 and May 3, 1888, noted, 
Monroe County Often noted in spring and fall. 
141. ZonorTrRicHIA ALBICOLLIS (Gmelin). WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. (558) 
Spring and fall migrant. less common than the White-crowned, and 
found in similar situations. About equally abundant in all the counties. 
Carroll County: October 12 and 19, 1878, abundant; May 8, 1883, very 
abundant in open woods, associated with great numbers of the White- 
crowned Sparrow. May 3, 1884, first noted; April 4, 1885, noted. 
Vigo County: Several noted, April 14. 1888, and again on April 21. 
142. SPIZELLA MONTICOLA MONTICOLA (Gmelin). TREE SPARROW. (559) 
An abundant winter resident, arriving from the north late in November 
or about the time of the first snow and remaining until the last of March 
or even later. It most delights in open brushy, weedy woodlands and old 
fence-rows, where it finds abundant food in the seeds of the weeds. 
Carroll County: November 5, 1878, abundant; March 5, 1879, very many 
noted; December 12 to 29, 1884, pretty common, coming into the gardens to 
feed on seeds. Very abundant during the winter of 1884-5, coming about the 
gardens, orchards and yards. March 18, 1885, still very abundant, as it was 
all winter; common in the yards and gardens in Camden. 
