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THE BINDS OF WISCONSIN. 
in the fall, about 1870; two in September, 1892; and three 
during September, 1894. On May 29, 1897, we were together 
collecting on a large, dry marsh near Delavan, and found it 
abundant and evidently nesting. Many specimens were taken 
in all stages of plumage during the summer and fall, and each 
succeeding year we have found it equally abundant ; but 
although we have taken many young still unable to fly more 
than a few feet and yet in nestling feather, as well as specimens 
in the post-juvenal moult, we have been able to find but one 
nest. This was taken May 29, 1898, and contained five eggs. 
It was placed on the ground in a tuft of grass beside some 
small willows, within twenty-five feet of a clump of tamarack 
trees, in one of the dampest places on the marsh. The parent 
bird was shot as she flew from the nest. The birds seem to 
remain cn this marsh entirely, at least we have never found 
them anywhere else at any season, except as noted above. 
They arrive in May, and remain until well into October. 
During the latter part of August and September the adults 
especially are in a condition of such extreme moult as to be 
almost unable to fly, there being many days when not an 
individual can boast of even a single tail feather. At the 
height of the nesting season, in June and early July, the males 
are perched upon the tops of the higher weeds over the whole 
marsh, but at other times of the year they must almost invari- 
ably be flushed from the grass to be seen. Evidently two 
broods at least are reared as we haye, by the aid of a careful 
retriever, taken nestlings in September. Mr. W. E. Snyder 
has recently discovered the species about Beaver Dam, and 
states that it is "an abundant summer resident in the dryer 
marshes" (1)'. It will doubtless be found in many localities in 
southern Wisconsin, where there are suitable breeding 
grounds. 
Am mod ramus leconteii (And.). LECONTE'S SPARROW. 
This species was taken at Lake Koshkonong but three or 
four times, but always in autumn, from 1842 to 1890 (T. and 
L. K.). One specimen was taken near Milwaukee in the fall 
of 1879 (L. K.). In September, 1894, numbers were procured 
at Lake Koshkonong, and at the same date in 1895 five hun- 
dred could have been taken. In 1896 but few were seen, and 
in 1897 none were procured. Since 1897 but a few each fall 
could be found. One was taken at Delavan in September 
1. Bull. Wis. Nat. His. Soc, April, 1892, p. 111. 
