Notes on the Birds. 367 
Vigo Cownily: March 9, 1889, still abundant; day coldest for some time. 
Monroe County: January 12, 1883, several seen, and on February 10, 
many scores noted; noted by Professor Blatchley as late as April 19. 
One of the prettiest sights one may see in early winter is a flock of these 
cheerful little birds, just arrived from the north and feeding along some 
brushy fence row or at the edge of some weedy field. They are very busy 
and very happy as they fly from the low trees and bushes down among 
.the rag weeds or other seed-bearing plants where they find an abundance 
of seeds that seem just to their taste. They glean very industriously, the 
while chirping or singing merrily: now and then taking short flights into 
the bushes or up into the trees near by but returning promptly to the weeds 
or to the ground beneath, not remaining long in one place but moving 
through the copsy tangle by easy stages, feeding as they go. And then 
again in early spring while snow still lies among the weeds and bushes and 
in all protected places, and the birds begin to prepare for the return to 
their summer home in the north, the tree sparrows are even more interesting 
than they were in the fall. They glean among the weeds as before but spend 
more time in the trees singing their sweet little song which means they will 
soon leave us, not to be seen again until next fall after the first snows have 
come. 
148. SPIZELLA PASSERINA PASSERINA (Bechstein). 
CHIPPING SPARROW. (560) 
A common and very familiar summer resident, coming about the yards 
and orchards and building its nests in the small cedars and similar trees 
about the house. The nest is usually constructed largely of horse-hairs, 
hence ‘Hair bird’, a name by which this bird is often known. 
Carroll County: May 29, 1883, set of two fresh eggs; March 27, 1884, 
first seen; April 5, 1885, several seen, first arrivals. May 14, 1919,*set of 
four fresh eggs, nest in woodbine vine, at Burlington, reported by Donovan 
Beck. 
Monroe County: Common summer resident, nesting commonly in the 
small cedars which are abundant in old pastures and open woods about 
Bloomington. 
Vigo County: Very common summer resident. April 1, 1888. 
144. SPIzELLA PALLIDA (Swainson). QLAY-COLORED SPARROW. (561) 
Probably a rare spring and fall migrant. One shot by Mr. Blatchley 
September 27, 1890, near Terre Haute: it was with a flock of tree sparrows. 
Not noted in any of the other counties. 
145. SPIZELLA PUSILLA PUSILLA (Wilson). FIELD SPARROW. (563) 
Common summer resident. Nests on the ground in old fields and similar 
places. 
Carroll County: In the spring of 1883, unusually common and singing 
sweetly in the eyening on the prairie farms in Tippecanoe and Jefferson 
