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ures with scattering trees, and occasionally they approach dwellings in company 
wdth the Chippy. 
Food: Of thirteen specimens examined, seven had eaten small seeds; three, 
six beetles; one, a grasshopper; one, larvae; two, eleven plant lice and other 
small hemipterous insects. Three had eaten insects, none of which are identified. 
It feeds upon the buds of elms and other trees in the spring, in Iowa (P. M. 
Trippe). 
101. ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS (Gm.), Bp. AVHITE-THROATED sparrow. 
Group I. Class a. 
This species is a migrant in the southern portion of the state, but from Wis¬ 
consin Valley Junction and Angelica northward it breeds in abundance. In its 
summer home it is partial to wind-fall tracts. In the fall they frequent the 
hedges along fences and other places where rank weeds abound. They are 
feeding their young as late as July 26th, from which it may be inferred that 
they rear two broods each season. It feeds mostly upon the ground, and, until 
after July, its food is largely insects. 
Food: Of sixteen specimens examined, thirteen had eaten many or a few 
seeds; one, raspberries; one, a grasshopper; two, four caterpillars; two, four 
beetles; and one, a caddis-fly. 
Seeds of rank weeds (Wilson). Seeds and insects (De Kay). Seeds, berries, 
and insects (Samuels). Caterpillars and seeds of weeds (Forbes). 
It is killed by the Sparrow and Sharp-shinned Hawks, and especially by the 
Marsh Harrier (Audubon). 
102. ZONOTRICHIA leugophrys(Forst.), Sw. WHITE-CROAVNED SPARROW. 
Group I. Class a. 
Only a migrant in Wisconsin, so far as known at present, and it is much less 
numerous than the last. Its haunts and habits are similar to those of the last. 
Audubon states that in the fall it occasionally pursues insects on the wing. 
Food: A single specimen examined had eaten weed seeds. 
Seeds of weeds (Forbes). While in Labrador, beetles, grass seeds, a variety of 
berries, and small mollusks (Audubon). 
Note.— A single specimen of var. intermedia of this species, and of Z. coronata and Z. querula, 
Dr. Hoy reports to have taken at Racine. 
103. Chondestes grammicus (Say), Bp. LARK FINCH. Group I. Class a. 
I have only met with this species at Berlin. There it arrives early in May, 
and is quite common. Several pairs bred on the ground in the park and in the 
school yard. It is a terrestrial species, thougli not exclusively so, and its favorite 
haunts are the. open prairies. I am inclined to think that it sets off for the 
south early in July, for I have never seen it later. Since writing the above, I 
have found a species breeding regularly at River FaUs. 
Food: Four specimens, taken in May and June, had eaten only small seeds. 
Seeds of grasses and other small plants (Brewer). 
104 Pyrgita domestica, Cuv. ENGLISH SPARROW. Group III. 
Class b. 
Within the last few years this European bird has been introduced into Alil- 
waukeo, and is rapidly becoming abundant in many of the towns and cities in 
the southern part of the state. 
