. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. Jan., 1909. Birds op Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 581 246. Calcarius pictus (Swains.)- Smith's Longspur. Disir.: Interior of North America; south in winter to Illinois and Texas; breeds from the latitude of the Great Slave Lake northward to the Arctic Ocean. Adult male in fall and winter: Hind toe nail, long; two outer tail feathers, largely white; under parts, entirely tawny buff, showing more or less small, dusky spots on the breast; upper plumage, including crown, streaked with black and grayish buff; nape with faint indications of a ta
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. Jan., 1909. Birds op Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 581 246. Calcarius pictus (Swains.)- Smith's Longspur. Disir.: Interior of North America; south in winter to Illinois and Texas; breeds from the latitude of the Great Slave Lake northward to the Arctic Ocean. Adult male in fall and winter: Hind toe nail, long; two outer tail feathers, largely white; under parts, entirely tawny buff, showing more or less small, dusky spots on the breast; upper plumage, including crown, streaked with black and grayish buff; nape with faint indications of a tawny buff collar; most of wing coverts, edged with -pale brown and tipped with whit- ish; sides of head, with more or less dusky; feet, pale. In summer plumage the male has the crown and sides of the head black. Adult female in fall and winter: General resemblance to the male in winter, but slightly paler. Length, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, .38. Smith's Longspur is an irregular but, at times, a not uncommon migrant in 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 individuals near Lake Calumet. Mr. Frank M. Woodruff found it abundant, May 5, 1893, in the vicinity of Worth Township, and states that in the year 1896 they seemed to be quite abundant. Mr. A. W. Butler records flocks being seen in Cook Co., 111., in April, 1896, and again in October of that year (Birds of Indiana, 1897, p. 932). Kumlien and Hollister consider it "as rare and of extremely erratic occurrence in Wisconsin" having "found it but a few times and never in flocks of any ; Several specimens in the Field Museum of Natural History col- lection were taken at Worth, Illinois, May 3, 1894. Genus RHYNCHOPHANES Baird. 247. Rhynchophanes mccownii (Lawr.). McCown's Longspur. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan to Texas and northern Mexico; breeds from Kansas an
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