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classified as one of the outstandin<: early habitat categories. He fouiul that hay- 

 studies of its kind. 1 was especially ini- lields constituted preferred habitat; with- 

 pressed by his statistical evaluation of the in this classification, clover and alfalfa 

 abundance of the bird in relationship to were preferred to other kinds of ha\fields 



Ornithologists in winter equipment ready to set out on a collecting expedition for the Illinois 

 State Laboratory of Natural History, about 1906. At the right is Alfred O. Gross, and with him 

 is Howard A. Ray. 



