AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, vig: 
118. CHIPPING SPARROW. 
Spizella socialis (Wils.). 
Summer resident; common and generally distributed. This 
species is familiar to every one. It prefers farming districts to 
waste fields, thickets, and forests, although I occasionally 
found it in the mountains. Stomach of specimen secured con- 
tained weed seeds. 
119. FIELD SPARROW. 
Spizella pusilla (Wils.). 
Summer resident; common; frequents cultivated fields and 
pastures. Stomach of specimen secured contained grass seeds. 
120. SLATE-COLORED JUNCO. 
Junco hyemalis (Linn.). 
Winter resident. I observed them in the Ohio Valley by 
September 28, frequenting meadows, thickets, and open fields. 
It is known as the Black Snowbird. Stomachs of specimens 
secured contained clover and weed seeds. 
121. CAROLINA JUNCO. 
Juneo hyemalis carolinensis Brewst. 
Resident in the higher mountains. I found them August 26 
on Rich Mountains, where I was informed they breed. I se- 
cured several specimens, but as they were lost with the rest of 
my skins, ] was unable to compare them with the northern 
form. Inthe mountain form the under parts are clearer white, 
the back a brighter blue, and the size somewhat larger than in 
hyematis, he bill is dark horn color. 
122. SONG SPARROW. 
Melospiza fasciata (Gmel.). 
Resident; abundant and universally distributed, associating 
with the other Sparrows that: frequent open fields, pastures, 
and groves and orchards. Stomachs of specimens secured 
contained seeds of foxtail and timothy grass, clover, smartweed 
and other weed seeds, and traces of beetles. 
