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Assiniboia and Manitpba; south during migration to Texas, 

 New Mexico, Arizona, northern Mexico; west to eastern Wash- 

 ington; east to Iowa and Missouri. 



Was met with in St. Charles Co., October 18, 1894 (Auk, vol. 

 12, p. 219), and in St. Louis Co., near Old Orchard, March 17, 

 1895. Was also taken by Mr. S. S. Wilson at St. Joseph, March 

 24 and May 25, 1895, and March 21, 1896. It is a regular spring 

 and fall migrant at Grinnell in central Iowa (April 25, 1885, and 

 March 24 to April 20, 1886; October 4 to 16, 1886) and is prob- 

 ably not a very rare transient visitant in Missouri, but easily 

 overlooked when in company with other sparrows, such as 

 Spizella monticola along the edge of woods in March, or Savanna 

 Sparrows, etc. along the lakes and sloughs of the marsh land in 

 the river bottoms. 



*546. COTURNICULUS SAV ANN ARUM PASSERiNUS (Wils.). Grass- 

 hopper Sparrow. 



Fringilla savannarum. Fringilla passerina. Emberiza passerina. Cotur- 

 niculus passerinus. Ammodramus passerinus. Ammodramus savan- 

 narum. Cricket Bird. 



Geog. Dist. Eastern United States and more southern 

 British provinces; west to edge of Plains; north to Maine, 

 New Hampshire, Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin etc. Winters 

 south of United States in Cuba, Yucatan and Gulf coast of 

 Mexico. 



In Missouri a fairly common summer resident in the prairie 

 and Ozark border region. The first arrive in southern Missouri 

 about the middle of April (earliest April 10, 1902, Jasper Co.) ; 

 in northern Missouri usually after April 20 and become common 

 during the last week of April or, in some years, only in the first 

 week of May, when they are sometimes numerous enough to 

 suggest the presence of transient visitants. While their singing 

 betrays them easily in spring their silence in autumn causes them 

 to be observed with difficulty and the dates of "last seen" vary 

 from the latter part of August through September to October 31 ; 

 there is even a record of November 15, 1902, from Jasper, but 

 this, as well as one of March 21, 1896, from St. Joseph, must be 

 regarded as quite exceptional. Mr. E. S. Woodruff found them 

 common in meadows at Eudy, Shannon Co., April 25, 1907, and, 

 finding them still present May 13, and at Grandin, Carter Co., 

 June 3, 1907, considers them breeders in that region. 



