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'Bloomington, February 2, 1883; Mr. Balmer reports it as a winter resident in 

 Knox County ; Judge McBride gives it as a rare winter visitor in Dekalb County; 

 Mr. Byrkit makes the same note with reference to Laporte County. Mr. Stock- 

 bridge notes it as a regular winter visitor, but rare in Allen County. He has a 

 pair in his collection taken in 1880 near Fort Wayne. Dr. J. T. Scovell has three 

 specimens which he took near Terre Haute in the winter of 1881-2. They were 

 In company with a flock of Horned Larks. , 



195. Calcarius pictus (Swains.}. SMITH'S LONGSPUR; PAINTED LONGSPUR. 



Migrant, common in the vicinity of Lake Michigan, at times at least. "Nel- 

 son observed this species as a common migrant on the borders of Lake County, 

 Indiana, where even seventy-five were seen in a flock." ( Bray ton. Trans. Ind. Hort. 

 Soc., 1879, p. 121.) 



GENUS POOCJETES BAIRD. 



*196. Poocaetes gramineus (Gruel.). VESPER SPARROW: BAY-WINGED BUNTING ; GRASS 



FINCH. 



Common summer resident. Breeds. Possibly resident in the extreme southern 

 part of the State. In Franklin County they are present some years from the 

 middle of February to early November. They first arrive in small flocks, but pair 

 about April 10. They are beautiful songster?, th^ir sweetest songs swell forth at 

 twilight, associated with the notes of insect life, the glow of the firefly, the call of 

 the Whip-poor-will. It is the vesper hymn, hence its author is known as the 

 "Vesper Sparrow. Many pretty things have been said of this plain, sweet-voiced 

 finch. It has been called "The poet of the plain, unadorned pastures." John 

 Burrows has used hig gifted pen to good .advantage in describing that which 

 charms one in this well known bird. 



GENUS PASSER BRISSON. 

 197. Passer domestica (Linn.). EUROPEAN HOUSE SPARROW ; " ENGLISH SPARROW." 



English Sparrow, male. 



