450 NESTS AND EGGS OK 



more lustrous. The eggs are thickly spotted and blotched with dark 

 brown and burnt umber, and more or less mixed with pale heliotrope 

 purple and purplish gray. They are ovate in shape, and measure .89 

 x .70, .88 x .69, .86 x .69 and .85 x.65 inch. 



" I am certain that these eggs are not those of the Cardinal, which 

 is not found as far north as Fort Custer and would surely have been 

 noticed by me, if it occurred there, and unless they should be abnor- 

 mally colored eggs of Pipilo maculatus arcticus, which is barely possible, 

 although also rather small for this species, they will certainly prove to 

 be those of Harris's Sparrow. While I do not believe that it is a con- 

 stant and common summer resident in the vicinity of Fort Custer, it 

 probably breeds there as a straggler ; I failed to meet with this spec- 

 ies during the summer, but found it not at all uncommon during its 

 fall migration. Specimens shot by me in the early part of October 

 are now in the National Museum collection. I found them associated 

 with White-crowned Sparrows and Arctic Towhees principally, scat- 

 tered in small flocks through the undergrowth along the Big and Lit- 

 tle Horn River bottoms, and it seems to confine itself to the shrub- 

 bery found along the streams. Specimens were shot by me as late as 

 October 21, 1885."* 



On the 28th of April, 1889, Mr. J. E. Gould shot a specimen of 

 Harris's Sparrow two miles north of Columbus, Ohio. Four or five 

 others were observed feeding in a thicket in company with the White- 

 throated Sparrow, Z. albicollis. Mr. Gould generously presented me 

 with the specimen of Z. querula, the skin of which is now in my col- 

 lection. The identification of this specimen, previously considered by 

 the writer to be Z. querula was, through the kind assistance of Mr. 

 Chas. F. Batchelder positively determined. This, I believe is the first 

 record of its occurrence in Ohio. The bird in this case has wandered 

 a long way out of its ordinary habitat (see page 304). 



5630, Spizella pusilla arenacea CHADB, 



Western Field Sparrow. 



Page 309. 



567.1 Junco carolenensis BREWST. [217, part.} 



Carolina Jnnco. 



Page 310. 



597#. Guiraca caerulea eurhyncha COUES [246, part.} 



Western Blue Grosbeak. 



Page 332, foot-note. 



*Auk, VI, 150-152. 



