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ZONOTRICHIA QUERULA (NuTTALL). (553.) 
HARRIS’S SPARROW. 
My first observation of this noble sparrow was in October, 
1870, and again in April. In May, 1876, it fell into my hands, 
and became frequently reported to mein the autumn. T.S. 
Roberts, near this city, and P. Lewis, in Pipestone, secured 
several. Indeed, for several years it has been often seen in 
migration. My correspondent, Dr. Hvoslef, at Lanesboro, 
shot several, the last one on the 11th of May, 1885, and others 
mention their assured presence still later in different localities, 
some of which, like the last mentioned, are in the southern 
tier of counties, and one on the St. Croix, east of St. Paul. 
Observed in so many places late in the spring, I have 
expected to hear that the nest and eggs were found, in which 
expectation, however, I have thus far been disappointed. 
Nearly all the localities where it has been obtained have been 
along the course of streams and in the brush that fringes 
them. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Hood and nape, sides of head anterior to and including the 
eyes, chin, throat, a few spots in the middle of the upper part 
of the breast, and on its sides, black; sides of the head and 
neck ash-gray, with the trace of a narrow crescent back of the 
ear coverts; interscpular region of back, with the feathers red- 
dish-brown streaked with dark brown; breast and belly clear 
white; sides of body light brownish, streaked; two narrow 
white bands across the greater and middle coverts. _ 
Length, 7; wing, 3.40; tail, 3.65. 
Habitat, middle United States from Minnesota west to Da- 
kota and middle Kansas. 
ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS (ForRSTER). (554 ) 
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 
This species is frequently seen in migration both in spring 
and autumn mingled with others of the same great family in 
thickets and brushy land generally. I-have found them during 
these periods more commonly along the borders of clearings 
in the numerous brush-piles, where they enjoy the safest 
covert from rapacious enemies while seeking their food of seeds 
and insects of different kinds. If encroached upon they will 
conceal themselves so closely as to lead one to suppose it an 
illusion that he had seen them at all until driven from their 
