. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 578 NORTH AMERICAN R1RD8. This species has a coiisideraldy larger bill than Z. mandible especially. Habits. This species was first descriV)ed in 1840, by Air. Nuttall, from specimens obtained by liini near Independence, Mo., near the close of the month of April. He again met with them on the following oth of May, when not far from the banks of the Little Vermilion Kiver, a branch of the Kansas. He fo
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 578 NORTH AMERICAN R1RD8. This species has a coiisideraldy larger bill than Z. mandible especially. Habits. This species was first descriV)ed in 1840, by Air. Nuttall, from specimens obtained by liini near Independence, Mo., near the close of the month of April. He again met with them on the following oth of May, when not far from the banks of the Little Vermilion Kiver, a branch of the Kansas. He found them frequenting thickets, and uttering, chieHy in the early morning, but also occasionally at other parts of the day, a long, drawling, fiiint, solemn, and monotonous succession of notes, resembling te-de-de-de. Since tlien but little additional information has been obtained in regard to their general habits, their geographical distriljution, or their mode of breeding, single sj)ecimens only having been taken at considerable intervals in the valley of the Missouri and elsewhere until 1872. Two specimens were se- cured by Mr. Dresser, near San Antonio, in Western Texas, occurring on the Medina River during their spring migrations. More recently this bird was taken twice by Mr. H. W. Parker, in Jasper County, Iowa. The latest of these was secured ^lay 19. Professor F. H. Snow, in his List of Kansas Birds, published April, 1872, enumerates this species as a bird frequently taken in Kansas in the winter, and probably resident; and Mr. J. A. Allen (American Naturalist, May, 1872) states that Harris's Finch was, next to the Cardinal, the most abundant species of the family of Sparrows and Finches in the vicinity of Leaven- worth, as it was also one of the largest and handsomest. He found it almost exclusively frequenting the damper parts of the woods, associating with the AVhite-throated Sparrow, much resembling it both in habits and in song. Nothing has so iar been published
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