. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . spring and fall in Illinois and probably in southern Wis-consin, frequenting the open plains. Nelson states he observed a flock of some seventy-five individualsnear Lake Calumet. Mr. Frank M. Woodruff found it abundant,May 5, 1893, in the vicinity of Worth Township, and states that inthe year 1896 they seemed to be quite abundant. Mr. A. W. Butlerrecords flocks being seen in Cook Co., 111., in April, 1896, and againin October of that year (Birds of Indiana, 1897, p. 932). Kumlien and Hollister consider it as rare and of extremelyerratic occurrence in Wis
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . spring and fall in Illinois and probably in southern Wis-consin, frequenting the open plains. Nelson states he observed a flock of some seventy-five individualsnear Lake Calumet. Mr. Frank M. Woodruff found it abundant,May 5, 1893, in the vicinity of Worth Township, and states that inthe year 1896 they seemed to be quite abundant. Mr. A. W. Butlerrecords flocks being seen in Cook Co., 111., in April, 1896, and againin October of that year (Birds of Indiana, 1897, p. 932). Kumlien and Hollister consider it as rare and of extremelyerratic occurrence in Wisconsin having found it but a few timesand never in flocks of any size. Several specimens in the Field Musetim of Natural History col-lection were taken at Worth, Illinois, May 3, 1894. Genus RHYNCHOPHANES Rhynchophanes mccownii (Lawr.).McCowns : Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan toTexas and northern Mexico; breeds from Kansas and Nebraska 582 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. McCowns Lonsispur.(Tail and upper tail coverts.) northward through the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana to the Sas-katchewan; accidental in Ilhnois. Adult male in summer: Hind toe nail, long; crown, black; awhite line over the eye (superciliary line); sides of head, pale ashy;a black malar stripe (extending from lowermandible); throat, white; a large crescentshaped black patch on the breast; rest ofunder parts, whitish; back, grayish, streakedwith dusky and buff; a conspicuous chestnutpatch on the shoulder formed by the mediancoverts; all tail feathers except the tw^o middleones, mostly white, tipped with dark brown. Adult male in fall and winter: No blackon crown; breast patch, only slightly in-dicated; head, buffy, the crown streakedwith dark brown; belly, whitish or white. It may be recognized bythe chestnut shoulder patch, and the characteristic marking ofthe tailfeathers. Adult female in fall and winter: Upper plumage, mixed buff anddark brown
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