24 The Wilson Bulletin. 



Horizon taken on six-mile trip north of the village; 6 A. 

 M. — 6p.M.; temperature o° Fahr. ; wind N.W.; sky over- 

 cast. 



i. Junco hy emails hy emails ohioensis jej units. 



2. Junco hy emails hy emails ohioensis circums pectus. 



The Ohio Hungry Juncos are to be found, commonly, in 

 farmers' back-yards and about hay-stacks in cold weather; 

 while the Ohio Wary Junco keeps to the woods and flees 

 incontinently upon human approach. 



3. Spisella montlcola montlcola montlcola soil t aria. 



4. Spisella montlcola montlcola montlcola sporophlla. 



5. Spisella montlcola montlcola montlcola vara. 



The local Tree Sparrows divide themselves naturally into 

 three groups: those which are seen only occasionally (5. m. 

 m. m. rara); those which when seen scatter readily and take 

 to the trees [S. m. m. m. solltarla), and those which feed 

 sociably in weed pastures and have royal good times together 

 (S. m. m. m. sporophlla). It is comparatively easy to classify 

 these birds, since Whichway's excellent "Monograph of the 

 Spizellse" set us the example of taking account of mental 

 and social traits in taxonomy. 



6. Melosplza clnerea melodla Indlgena brushpllei. 



7. Melosplza clnerea melodla indlgena cattallswampl. 



We are to be congratulated upon the sensible introduc- 

 tion of Latinized Americanisms in modern nomenclature. 

 The dead languages were becoming unpresentably thread- 

 bare some dozen years ago. 



Besides being readily separable on the ground of habitat, 

 these birds are further distinguished by certain physical char- 

 acters. For instance, the "mummy brown" of the pileum 

 of M. c. m. I. brushpllei is quickly referable to the complex- 

 ion of Rameses II.; while that of M. c. m. I. cattallswampl 

 takes us back to somewhere in the Third Dynasty. The 

 "broccoli brown," too, of brushpllel's middle rectrices is 

 that of cabbage raised on high, open ground, while that of 

 cattallswampl corresponds to the particular shade of the suc- 

 culent vegetable when grown in muck — as we should expect. 



