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Birds of America

(State Bird of Colorado)

By John James Audubon, F. R. SS. L. & E.

VOLUME III.

PRAIRIE LARK-FINCH.
[Lark Bunting.]

CORYDALINA BICOLOR, Towns.
[Calamospiza melanocorys.]

PLATE CCII.--MALE AND FEMALE.

"The Prairie Finch inhabits a portion of the Platte country, in large flocks. It is strictly gregarious, and feeds upon the ground, along which it runs like the Grass Finch, Fringilla graminea, to which it is somewhat allied. As the large flocks, consisting of from sixty to a hundred individuals, were started from the ground by our caravan in passing, the piebald appearance of the males and females promiscuously intermingled, presented a curious, but by no means unpleasing, effect. While the flock is engaged in feeding, the males are frequently observed to rise suddenly to a considerable height in the air, and poising themselves over their companions, with their wings in constant and rapid motion, they become nearly stationary. In this situation they pour forth a number of very lively and sweetly modulated notes, and at the expiration of about a minute descend to the ground, and course about as before. I never observed this bird to the west of the Black Hills."

 

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