134 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The range of this species covers the northern part of the 

 northern hemisphere, and in winter it migrates southward to 

 Kansas, Colorado and Kentucky, in fact during the winter it is 

 abundant in the interior of the United States. It has also been 

 observed in Soutii Carolina and as far south as Texas. 



Calcarius pictus (Swains.). Smith's Longspur. 



Emberiza (Plectrophanes) picta Swainson, in Sw. & Rich., Fauna 

 Bor. Amer., II, 1831, 250, pi. 49. 



Plectrophanes pictus Bonapaete, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 37. 



Calcarius pictus Stejnegeb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, June 5, 

 1882, 33. 



Popular synonyms : Painted Longspub ob Bunting. Smith's Hunt- 

 ing. Painted Laek Bunting. 



Smith's Longspur is an irregular migrant in our vicinity. 

 Mr. E. W. Nelson records this species as a common migrant, 

 and says:* "March 30, 1875, "^^^ Lake Calumet, I found a flock 

 containing about seventy-five individuals." I have been un- 

 able to find any records of its appearance, within our limits, since 

 the date of Mr. Nelson's observation until May 5, 1893, when 

 this species appeared in greater numbers than Calcarius lap- 

 ponicus, and seemed to prefer the elevated portions of the ground 

 in the vicinity of Worth Township. In their spring migrations, 

 these Longspurs arrive the last of March and remain until May ; 

 in the fall, they return about the first of October. In the collec- 

 tion of the Field Columbian Museum there are four specimens 

 which were taken at Worth, May 3, 1894. In the year 1896 

 Smith's Longspurs seemed to be quite abundant. As recorded 

 by Mr. Amos W. Butler, in his Birds of Indiana,t in the spring 

 of 1896, "They were first seen near Chicago, April 16, where 

 Mr. Eliot Blackwelder saw about a hundred, two days later. 

 Mr. C. A. Tallman reported seeing a hundred and fifty. Each 

 of these gentlemen saw them repeatedly that spring, as did also 

 Mr. Parker." In the fall of the same year Mr. Butler says that 

 a flock of fifty were seen in Cook County by Mr. C. A. Tallman 

 on the third of October and that others were seen on the eleventh 

 of the same month. 



The range of this species extends from the Arctic coast south- 

 ward through the interior of North America to Texas. It 

 breeds in the far north. 



*Birds of Northeastern Illinois. Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 106. 

 t Twenty-second Annual Beport, Dept. Geol. and Nat. Besources, Indiana, 1897, 

 932. 



