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72. Spizella monticola. Tree Sparrow. — Common winter resi- 
dent. Seen as late as April 10. 
73. Spizella socialis. Chipping Sparrow. — Common migrant, 
and breeds. First seen April 11. 
74. Spizella pusilla. Field Sparrow. — Common. Arrives April 
12. In song April 14. Breeds. 
75. Zonotrichia albicollis. White-throated Sparrow. — Com- 
mon migrant. First seen April 3, and common till the first week in May. 
76. Zonotrichia leucophrys. White-crowned Sparrow. — Not 
common. First noted May 5. They were noted remaining about two 
weeks after that date. 
77. Zonotrichia querula. Harris’s Sparrow. — Previous to my 
visit to Warrensburg, I liad spent three weeks at Mound City, in Linn 
County, Kansas. This is about a hundred miles southwest of Warrens- 
burg. On my arrival at Mound City, on March 8, I found this species 
very abundant and in winter plumage. They frecpiented low thickets, 
near water, and were rather shy. On sunny days they were constantly 
singing in a strain very like that of the White-throats, but a little more 
prolonged, and perhaps louder. They were rather shy, but I obtained 
without difficulty a series of about forty birds, all, as I believe, in complete 
winter dress. About the last of March they began to moult. 
On my arrival at Warrensburg I found the birds quite common, but 
not as abundant as at Mound City. They were all moulting, and had 
much the same habits as the White-crowned Sparrows, being in small par- 
ties of three or four, and frequenting similar localities to those spoken of 
above. They were still common April 27, and had assumed the breeding 
plumage. I took some as late as May 5. That they winter in Southern 
Kansas I have no doubt, as they were well known to many hunters, who 
spoke of them as “ Winter Chippies.” 
78. Chondestes grammica. Lark Finch. — Very common. Ar- 
rives from the middle to the last of April. Breeds. 
79. Passerella iliaca. Fox Sparrow. — Abundant, migrant, and 
probably a winter resident. 
80. Euspiza americana. Black-throated Bunting. — Common 
summer resident. Arrives about May 1. 
81. Goniaphea ludoviciana. Bose-breasted Grosbeak. — Not 
very common. First noted May 1. Probably breeds. 
82. Cyanospiza cyanea. Indigo Bird. — Common migrant and 
summer resident. Arrives about May 1. Females taken from this region 
show a decided blue tinge, and the males are very intense in coloring. 
83. Cardinalis virginianus. Cardinal Redbird. — Common and 
resident. The birds of this species taken here are very much higher- 
colored than the same species taken in New Jersey, and this is particularly 
noticeable among the females, which often have many bright red feathers 
striping the huffish color of the breast. The Redbird in this region is one 
of the familiar species about houses and gardens. 
