. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 587 in winter; breeds from Iowa northward through Minnesota and the Dakotas to Manitoba. Adult: Top of head, blackish, with a grayish buff streak in the cen- tre; a tawny buff stripe over the eye; feathers of the back, brownish black, edged with pale rufous and buff; throat, buffy white; breast and sides, pale buff, streaked with dull black; tail feathers, narrow and point- ed, the shafts, dark. Length, 5 or less; wing, ; tail, 2; bill, .33., Leconte's Sparrow is a more or less com- mon
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 587 in winter; breeds from Iowa northward through Minnesota and the Dakotas to Manitoba. Adult: Top of head, blackish, with a grayish buff streak in the cen- tre; a tawny buff stripe over the eye; feathers of the back, brownish black, edged with pale rufous and buff; throat, buffy white; breast and sides, pale buff, streaked with dull black; tail feathers, narrow and point- ed, the shafts, dark. Length, 5 or less; wing, ; tail, 2; bill, .33., Leconte's Sparrow is a more or less com- mon migrant in Illinois and Wisconsin and v' some years abundant in some localities. Ridg- Leconte's Sparrow. ., . ^ , ., , . , . way considers it an abundant migrant m some localities and states that in the latter part of October, 1882, he " found it numerous in meadows on Sugar Creek prairie, Richland Co., in company with C. ; Nelson considered it a rare migrant in northeastern Illinois. Mr. Frank M. Woodruff gives it as a rare migrant in the vicinity of Chi- cago. Specimens were taken by Mr. Nelson near the Calumet River. It has been observed on several occasions near Worth, 111., and Mr. H. S. Swarth procured a specimen there on October 12, 1905. In a note regarding its occurrence near Warsaw, 111., Mr. Chas. K. Worthen states: " I have taken in the last two years on the prai- ries here some twenty specimens; have taken them both in fall and spring as well as during the summer, and am satisfied they breed here, though I have not been able to find their nests or eggs. I have found them on low swampy prairies in the Mississippi bottoms and on dry prairies on the bluffs, but generally in swampy or marshy ; (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. V, 1880, p. 32.) According to Kumlien and HoUister it is abundant at times in Wisconsin. They state: " This species was taken at Lake Koshko- nong but three or four times, but always in the autumn, from 184
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