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Within a half mile from the house there were certainly not less than a 
thousand, and probably over two thousand, individuals. ‘They could be 
seen and heard on all sides all the time. The next day the numbers 
remained the same, while the day following a walk over the same 
ground revealed two birds only. Considering the winter bird to be 
alaudinus, Mr. Ragsdale did not record savanna from Gainesville until 
April 7 and the Jast May 14. 
Nearer the Mississippi they reached Pierce City, Mo., March 19, 
and Saint Louis March 22; but this bird was ahead of his mates, for 
less than half a dozen were seen before April 19. Des Moines, Iowa, 
‘was reached April 23, and Lanesboro, Minn., on the last day of the 
month. At Manhattan, Kans., directly north of Gainesville, it arrived 
April 21. The Savanna Sparrow usually breeds from latitude 409° 
northward, but Mr. Ridgway states that it breeds throughout Mli- 
nois, and Mr. Nehrling has found it breeding at Pierce City, Mo. Dr. 
Watson thinks that in former years he found it nesting at Ellis, Kans. 
In the spring of 1885 not a note on the Savanna Sparrow came from 
any station east of the Mississippi River. At Manhattan, Kans., the 
first was seen April 1; Saint Louis, Mo., April 7; Grinnell, Iowa, April 
22; Waukon, Iowa, May 4; Heron Lake, Minn., May 9; Huron, Dak., 
May 4, and White Earth, Minn., May 16. In the fall of 1885 the last 
was seen at Grinnell, Iowa, September 27, and the first at Emporia, 
Kans., October 10. 
542 b. Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus (Bp.). [193b.] Western Savanna 
Sparrow. 
Common on the Great Plains and in western Manitoba. Mr. Rags- 
dale regards this form as the winter resident at Gainesville, Tex., where 
in 1884 it was most abundant February 26. By April 29 all had gone. 
In western Texas Mr. Lloyd determined it to be a common resident. 
Colonel Goss has taken it in western Kansas. 
545. Ammodramus bairdii (Aud.). [191.] Baird’s Bunting. 
Baird’s Buating breeds in western Manitoba, Dakota, and western 
Minnesota. By what route it goes south is a question. Doctor Coues, 
writing ten years ago, said that it was extremely abundant in Dakota 
almost to the Red River of the North, and that all left in September. 
Where did they go? The species is not known to occur in Kansas; 
and if there is a Nebraska record I have failed to find it. Nevertheless, 
we are bound to believe that it does occur in both these States. Mr. G. 
H. Ragsdale shot one at Gainesville, Tex., April 24, 1884, and if it occurs 
in central Texas and Dakota it must perforce occur in the intervening 
country. At Caddo, Ind. Ter., it was not found, though I shot upwards 
of fifty Savanna Sparrows in the vain hope that some one of them 
would resolve itself into the wished-for Baird’s. On March 31, among 
alot of Savannas, I heard one singing with the trill at the end which 
