150 BIRDS OF OHIO. 



307. (567.) JuNCO hyemalis (Linn.). 104. 

 Slate-colored Junco. 



Synonyms: Fringilla hyemalis. 



Snowbird, Eastern Snowbird, Black Snowbird, Common 

 Snowbird, Junco, White-bill. 



Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838. 164, 183. 



This "Snowbird" is a winter resident over the whole 

 state, but is not usually common during January and Feb- 

 ruary in the extreme north. When it is present during 

 these months it is pretty closely confined to the deeper 

 stream gorges, where it finds food, and protection from the 

 cold winds. In the central and southern parts of the state 

 it may be found with the flocks of Tree Sparrows and Gold- 

 finches, well scattered over the country. There it may pass 

 the night in the corn shocks. 



During the winter Junco eats weed and grass seeds al- 

 most exclusively, only nine per cent, of its entire food being 

 animal. There is so little grain eaten that it does not figure. 

 Hence the Junco is a great aid to the agricultural inter- 

 ests in the destruction of weeds. 



Junco appears in northern Ohio about the first of October 

 and within a week has made his way to our southern bor- 

 der. He leaves that border about the middle of April, often 

 later, but tarries along the lake shore until the first of May. 



208. (575a.) Peuc.ea .IiStivalis bachmanii (Aud.). — 

 Bachman SparroAv. 



Synonyms: Fringilla bachmanii. 



Oak-woods Sparrow. 

 Henninger, Bulletin Michigan Orn. Club, II, 1898, 7. 



The first specimen was captured by C. M. Weed, August 

 18, 1890, at Columbus. The specimens reported by Rev. 

 Mr. Henninger in the above reference were taken on April 

 23, and a second observed on May 3, 1897, at South Web- 

 ster. Miss Laura Gano reports several on April 27, and 

 later, on Grosbeck Hill, Avondale, and College Hill, Cin- 

 cinnati. Leander S. Keyser sends a questionable record 

 ior Clarke county. The invasion has been from the south- 



