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THE WILSON BULLETIN— June, 1922 
Rather common locally in Sank County, around the sandy, 
grassy fields at the foot and part wav up the sides of bluffs. 
Small colonies were seen on the bald tops of certain high 
bluffs in Columbia County, in grass and weed patches, near the 
gravelly spots where the Xiglithawks lay their eggs. In the 
township of Mazomanie, Dane County, a small colony has been 
located for years on a bit of waste land a short distance from 
the river. In a general way it may be said to be partial to 
sandy or barren spots grown up to short grass or weeds in 
places that are seldom plowed. 
Zonotrichia 1. leucophrys (White-crowned Sparrow). — An 
adult female taken in the Baraboo Bluffs, Sauk County, June 
G, suggests the possibility of their breeding here. 
Spiza mnericana (I)ickcissel) . — A great Dickcissel year in 
all parts of southern Wisconsin visited. Riding along the coun- 
try roads, singing males were noted as averaging six to ten to 
the mile. In many of the hay fields they were the commonest 
birds, at least three or four pair per acre. 
Sciurus motacilla (Louisiana Water-Thrush). — These shy, 
elusive creatures are regular migrants in small numbers along 
the Wisconsin River valley, and a few pairs breed near the 
source of Otter Creek, a rushing trout brook in the Baraboo 
Bluffs. June 27, 1913, a nest with one egg was found, in a 
pocket in the bank of the brook. A few days later, finding it 
deserted, it was collected, as well as an adult of this species 
that frequented the vicinity. This spring (1921 ) I made a 
special effort to get a satisfactory breeding record, but the 
nearest I came to it was finding a pair June G feeding a big 
lubberly Cowbird. The female parent was collected for identi- 
fication. 
An early record is a specimen collected in the river bottoms in 
Sauk County April 17, the day after the blizzard. The bird was 
in the snow by a slushy pool. Although there were four or five 
inches of snow on the ground, S. Raul Jones and the writer 
listed fifty species of birds in these sheltered bottoms. This 
disastrous storm must have destroyed ever} 7 Woodcock and 
Prarie Horned Lark nest in the southern counties of Wisconsin. 
Thryomanes ?>. beicickii (Bewicks Wren). — At least two 
pairs of these wrens appeared in the vicinity of Prairie du Sac 
this last spring (1921) and 1 tried without success to collect 
a. specimen to establish a clear record for the State. My friend, 
Mr. Albert Gastrow, told me of a species of wren new to him 
