The Birds of Wyoming. 



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a number live about the University building in the nooks and 

 recesses. I have also noted small flocks about ranches on the 

 Laramie plains, above Casper and south of Buifalo. All of the 

 Wyoming records are from the south and eastern portions of 

 the state, but there can be but little doubt that they are com- 

 mon in the western and northwestern parts. Coues refers to 



/. ef>AY CKOWNED LCUCOSTICTE 2. SHOW BUNTING 



3, LARK eUNTING . •*- G~^e£N~TAIUED rOiVHE£ 



•S. CHESTNOr-COLLftPieD LONOSPUR . 



a great many specimens that were taken in the winter of 1859- 

 60 by Hayden and Trook at Deer creek. Some of these speci- 

 mens may belong to the other varieties or species, but the most 

 of them can safely be placed here. Jesurun reports them very 

 abundant during the winter at Douglas; Bond reports them 

 common at Cheyenne during the winter ; Allen noted them in 

 December, 1871, in Carbon county. Burnett sent me one of 

 these birds late in the winter of 1900 that he had taken at the 

 head of Little Medicine river. There is quite a series of skins 



