An associational study of Illinois sand prairie . em. Bird life is scanty on the sand-prairie in comparison withthat of the hlack-soil prairie. There is an abundance of insectfood, particularly grasshoppers, and it is thought that severity ofnesting conditions is the chief factor in the exclusion of so manybirds from the association. Species which nest in hedges and thicketare quite abundant, but the true prairie species, which nest on theground, are very fev/. The A. 0. U. checklist, from which the nomenclature wastaken, did not cite names of the authors of the various species. t Colinus virg
An associational study of Illinois sand prairie . em. Bird life is scanty on the sand-prairie in comparison withthat of the hlack-soil prairie. There is an abundance of insectfood, particularly grasshoppers, and it is thought that severity ofnesting conditions is the chief factor in the exclusion of so manybirds from the association. Species which nest in hedges and thicketare quite abundant, but the true prairie species, which nest on theground, are very fev/. The A. 0. U. checklist, from which the nomenclature wastaken, did not cite names of the authors of the various species. t Colinus virginianus yij^ginianus. The quail or bob-white is of secondary importance in bunch-grass. It feeds in the sand-prairie, much of ite food being grass-hoppers while these are abundant. Several flocks were seen inspring. Zenaidura macroura oarolinensis. The mourning dove is of secondary importance in the bunch-grass association. They do not nest in the sand-prairie, and v/henfound are in groups of two or three. They feed upon seeds 160 Buteo platypterus. July, April 5. The broadwinged hav/k was often seen soaring above the sand-prairie. It was very frequent in spring. Probably a species to bereckoned with in the sand-prairie associations. vThat appeared to be the red-tailed hawks was seen July 25in the black-oak forest east of Havana, and in several places southof Havana, in April. The marsh hawk was also seen, at a distancefrom the river, in April. Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. The black-billed cuckoo nests in thickets. It is veryabundant in the sand-region, and is occasionally seen in bunch-grass,on fences or in shrubbery. At the uevils Hole they were seen in asmall clump of coffee trees. The food consists of insects, notablyhairy caterpillars, which other birds tryannus. The kingbird is often seen singly in the bunch-grass, dart-ing from its perch on a fence or bush in pursuit of some inseot,It is a thicke- species primarily. Utocoris alpestris pra
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