ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



GENUS CALCAR1US BECHST. 



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225-586-(22O). Calcarius lapponicns (Linn.). LAPLAND LONGSPUR. 



Rare; migrant; spring and autumn; often winters in Southern Michigan; "one 

 pair killed at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "generally a transient visitor from the north, 

 occasionally spends the winter south of 43 north latitude " (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); 

 October to April; reported from Wayne County and Mackinac Island; "Keweenaw 

 Point" (Kneeland); it is said to be a common spring migrant in Northern Indiana 

 (Butler's Birds of Indiana). 



226-537-(221). 



LONGSPUR. 



Calcarius pictus (Swain.). SMITH'S LONGSPUR; PAINTED 



Reported common on the southern shore of Lake Michigan (Butler's Birds of 

 Indiana); Dr. M. Gibbs thinks this may be found in Michigan; migrant; in flocks. 



GENUS POOCjETES BAIBD. 



Grass Finch, reduced. 



227-54O-(232). Poocaetes graminens (Gmel). * VESPER SPARROW; BAY-WINGED 

 BUNTING; GRASS FINCH; GROUND BIRD. 



One of our most common finches; throughout the State; April to October; "Mack- 

 inac Island" (S. E. White); "common at Iron Mountain" (E. W. Brewster); "Kewee- 

 naw Point" (Kneeland); "next to song sparrow our most common finch" (J. Trombley); 

 its pretty evening song vesper song gives it one of its common names; breeds; two 

 or three broods a year; nests in May, June or July, on the ground, in pasture, meadow, 

 and by the roadside; eggs four, gray, specked with dull brown; birds not shy; like all 

 our native sparrows, insectivorous and valuable. 



