GEOIvOGY OF r^A SAIylvE) COUNTY. 



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Yellow Wing'ed Sparrow— Ammodramus passeri- 

 nes— streaked above; feathers edg-ed with bay; breast 

 buffy, unstreaked; wing-s and tail short. Fields; notes 

 grasshopper like. 



Lark Finch— Chondester g-rammica— a fine song- 

 ster; a prairie bird. 



Song- Sparrow— Melospiza fasciata— noted for its 

 song-. 



Snow Bird — Junco hyemalis — common in winter. 



Black-throated Bunting— Spiza Americana, 



Indigo Bird — Passerina cyanea ~- indigo blue; 

 greenish behind. 



Cardinal Grosbeak, Red Bird— Cardinalis cardi- 

 nalis— clear red, ashy on back; crested. Not often 

 seen. 



Towhee Buntings, Chewink, Marsh Robin— Peplo 

 erythrophthalmus— black; belly white; sides chestnut; 

 female, brown. 



Family leteridae— Orioles— Bobolink, Reed Bird, 

 Rice Bird— Dolichonyx oryzivorus— male in spring- 

 black; neck lig-ht buff; shoulders and rump ashy white, 

 back streaked; female, and in fall male yellowish 

 brown. 



Red Winged Blackbird, Sw^amp Blackbird — 

 Ag-elsus phoeniceus— gloss}^ black w^ith a red spot on 

 each side; female duller. 



Yellows-headed Blackbird— Xanthocephalus xan- 

 thocephalus— head and neck rich rich yellow\ 



Meadow Lark— Sturnella magna--. Brownish and 

 streaked above; chiefly yellow below; black crescent 

 on breast. 



Crow Blackbird, Purple Grackle— Quiscalus quis- 

 cula-— black, head purplish, body bronzy. 



Baltimore Oriole, Golden Robin, Fire Bird- -Icte- 

 rus galbula— noted for its curiously built and sus- 

 pended nest. Sometimes called Hangnest. 



