BIRDS OF INDIANA. 929 



14 and 15, 1891; Wabash County, several, winter of 1892-3 (Wallace); 

 Dekalb County (E. W. McBride); Allen County (Stockbridge). 



While usually found in flocks of their kind, sometimes small num- 

 bers, or single individuals, are sometimes found associated with flocks 

 of Horned Larks, with which at times may be found Lapland Long- 

 spurs, also. 



With us, they frequent the meadows, pastures, stubble and other 

 cultivated land, living upon seeds of different kinds of grasses and 

 weeds. From examinations made of the stomachs of birds, presumably 

 taken in Wisconsin, their chief food was found to be the seeds of the 

 black bind-weed and foxtail grass (King, Wis. Geology, I. p. 535). 

 "They keep pretty closely in flocks, numbering from a dozen or so 

 to several hundreds, and, though they spread over the ground a good 

 deal in running about after seeds, they fly compactly and wheel all 

 together. In their evolutions they present a pretty sight, and have a 

 not unpleasant stridulent sound, from the mingling of the weak chir- 

 rups from so many throats" (Coues). 



125. GENUS CALCARIUS BECHSTEIN. 



a 1 . Lower parts whitish; but little white on outer tail feather. 



C. lapponicus (Linn.). 206 

 a 2 . Lower parts deep buff; much white on two outer tail feathers. 



C. pictus (Swains.). 207 



206. (536). Calcarius lapponicus (LINN.). 



Lapland Longspur. 



Adult Male in Summer. Above, brown, spotted with black; head 

 and jugulum, black, with broad white supra-auricular stripe; lower 

 parts, dull whitish; nape, bright chestnut-rufous; lesser wing coverts, 

 grayish; middle coverts, dusky; legs, black. In Winter. Similar, but 

 throat whitish, jugular patch badly defined, head much tinged with 

 ochraceous, and rufous of nape obscured by grayish. Adult Female in 

 Summer. Head, mostly dull-buffy, the crown with two broad lateral 

 stripes of broad dusky streaks, the ear coverts tipped with dusky bar; 

 a dusky patch on each side of throat, and indication of one on the 

 jugulum; nape, faintly rufous, streaked with black. In Winter. Simi- 

 lar, but more suffused with brownish. Young. Head, neck, jugulum, 

 and upper parts, yellowish-fulvous, streaked with black; crown and 

 wings, strongly tinged with rufous. (Bidgway, Orn. of 111., Vol. I., 

 p. 241). 



Length, about 6.10-6.90; wing, 3.60-3.90. 



59 GEOL. 



