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Genus Riiynchophanes, Baird. 
98. R. maccowni (Lawr.) Baird. McCown’s Longspur. Casual winter 
visitant. (Champaign, January, 1877; three specimens. H. K. Coale, Bull. 
Nutt. Orn. Club, April, 1877, p. 52.) 
Genus Passerculus, Bonaparte. 
*99. P. sandwichensis savanna (Wils.) Ridgw. Savannah Sparrow. Sum- 
mer sojourner, wintering southward. 
Genus Pocecetes, Baird. 
*100. P. gramineus (Gmel.) Baird. Bay- shouldered Bunting. Summer 
sojourner; resident southward, where, however, it breeds sparingly. An inhab- 
itant of fields and meadows, or open prairies. This, with other species of sim- 
ilar habits, as the Savannah and Yellow-winged Sparrows, are familiarly known 
as “ Grass -birds,” or “Ground-birds.” 
Genus Coturniculus, Bonaparte. 
J *101. C. passer inus (Wilson) Bp. Yellow-winged Bunting. Summer 
sojourner; occasionally a few wintering southward. This is the commonest of 
the “Grass-birds,” frequenting meadows, where well known from its peculiar 
lisping song which resembles the rasping note of a grasshopper (locust); hence 
known locally as “Grasshopper-bird ” and “ Cricket-bird,” 
*102. C. hensloivi (Aud.) Bp. Henslow's Bunting. Summer sojourner; 
in southern counties sometimes wintering. A common species on weedy prairies, 
with habits much like the preceding, but with a different song (sounding like 
pil'-lut, or se'-wick,) which it utters while perched on the summit of a tall weed. 
*103. C. lecontei (Aud.) Bp. Leconte’s Bunting. Chiefly transient, but 
doubtless breeding in northwestern counties. Inhabits chiefly wet prairies, 
where it keeps hidden in the rank grass and sedges like the Ammodromi. 
[Taken in Chicago, May 2, 1878, by C. A. White (H. K. Coale, in epist.); at 
Riverdale, Cook county, May 13 and 17, 1875, by E. W. Nelson; and in Han- 
cock county by C. K. Worthen, “ both in fall and spring, as well as during sum- 
mer.” (See Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, January, 1880, p. 32) J. 
Genus Ammodromus, Swainson. 
*104. A. caudacutus nelsoni, Allen. Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Bunting. A 
summer resident in northern counties, where it inhabits grassy marshes. It is 
a recently discovered race, and its distribution is consequently not well made 
out. It very likely winters in sheltered marshes in the southern portion of the 
state. 
Genus Chondestes, Swainson. 
*105. C. grammica (Say) Bp. Lark Bunting. Summer sojourner; entire 
state, but partial to the semi- wooded districts. Easily distinguished from all 
other terrestrial sparrows (except the Chewink — Pipilo ergthrophthalmus, 
which is otherwise very different), by the white-tipped tail; usually seen along 
roadsides. A sweet and indefatigable singer, surpassing the canary and every 
native species in continuity and sprightliness of song, through which are inter- 
spersed most pleasing trills and varied cadences. Nests indifferently on the 
