. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 582 Field Museum of Natural'^History—Zoology, Vol. IX. northward through the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana to the Sas- katchewan; accidental in IIHnois. Adult male in summer: Hind toe nail, long; crown, black; a white line over the eye (superciliary line); sides of head, pale ashy; a black malar stripe (extending from lower mandible); throat, white; a large crescent shaped black patch on the breast; rest of under parts, whitish; back, grayish, streaked with dusky and buff; a conspicuous chestnut patch on the "shoulder" formed by th
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 582 Field Museum of Natural'^History—Zoology, Vol. IX. northward through the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana to the Sas- katchewan; accidental in IIHnois. Adult male in summer: Hind toe nail, long; crown, black; a white line over the eye (superciliary line); sides of head, pale ashy; a black malar stripe (extending from lower mandible); throat, white; a large crescent shaped black patch on the breast; rest of under parts, whitish; back, grayish, streaked with dusky and buff; a conspicuous chestnut patch on the "shoulder" formed by the median coverts; all tail feathers except the two middle ones, mostly white, tipped with dark brown. Adult male in fall and winter: No black McCown's Lon^spur. on crown; breast patch, only slightly in- (Taii and upper tail coverts.) (jicatcd; head, buffy, the crown streaked with dark brown; belly, whitish or white. It may be recognized by the chestnut "shoulder" patch, and the characteristic marking of the tailfeathers. Adult female in fall and winter: Upper plumage, mixed buff and dark brown; a rather faint, pale buff streak over the eye; throat, buffy white; breast, pale tawny buff, at times tinged with dusky; sides of body, washed with tawny buff; belly, whitish; chestnut shoul- der patch (median coverts) of the male replaced by pale rufous brown; tail markings, as in the male. Length, about to 6; wing, ; tail, ; bill, .38. McCown's Longspur is an accidental straggler in Illinois. The only record I have been able to find of its occurrence in the state is that of Mr. H. K. Coale in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1877, p. 52, in which he states: " While looking over a box of Snow Buntings and Shore Larks in the market, January 15, 1877, I found a specimen of Plectrophanes mccowni shot at Champaign, Illi- nois. January 17, another box containing Lapland Longspurs was sent from the same place and among them was a second specimen o
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