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(12) quotes J. A. Allen as saying that the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoology contains specimens from various points in Iowa, 
but gives no data, merely referring to the abundance of the bird 
in the central part of the state. 
The data for Ohio consist of two records: one as published by 
Davie (14) and quoted by Jones (17): a single specimen shot 
April 29, 1899, two miles north of Columbus, out of a flock of 
four or five, in a thicket with white-throated sparrows (Z. albicol- 
lis ); the other as listed by Cooke (10), also from Columbus, 
on April 27, 1889. Butler (7) mentions the species in a hypo- 
thetical list of Indiana birds, while Cooke (10) records a speci- 
men from Sheridan, Indiana, for May 4, 1907. 
The published data for Wisconsin consist of a few scattered 
records summed up by Kumlien and Hollister (19), who quote 
J. N. Clark as follows: 
The first that came to my notice in Wisconsin were taken May 12, 
1886, — a pair — and I saw no more until October 5, 1890, when three speci- 
mens were taken from a bunch of four, and again October 19, 1892, saw 
a flock of six or eight, and have seen a few individuals each fall since, 
but never have found it in the spring except the time mentioned above. 
It is a rare bird in this locality [Dunn county], but is becoming more 
plentiful each year. 
On July 4, 1892, Mr. Clark found a pair in Dunn county, 
and says that: ‘‘From their actions and the lateness of the sea- 
son, I think there is not much doubt but that they were nesting 
near by.” The authors also list a specimen taken in Iron county, 
but give no date; they refer also to an old record of Hoy’s (21) 
of one specimen taken at Racine, and state that “three speci- 
mens have been taken at Lake Koshkonong — one in the spring, 
and two in the fall.” However, the first published reference to 
the sparrow in Wisconsin the writer has located is that of Barry 
(5), who lists it under the name of Z. atricapilla, and says that 
it ‘‘is met with occasionally.” Ridgway (24) also refers to the 
specimen shot by Hoy, and to these reported by H. K. Coale, col- 
lected at La Crosse in October, 1883. Cooke (8) refers to this spec- 
imen taken at Trempealeau on the Wisconsin side of the Missis- 
sippi in the fall of the same year, and in another paper (10) gives 
two more records for the state: one from Elkhorn for May 15, 
1909, another from North Freedom on October 3, 1903, and a 
