OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. ^Oj 



Its flight is low and in graceful undulations. In 



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the procurement of food it is chiefly terrestrial. It 

 is occasionally found upon small trees and bushes 

 in quest of larval insects. Its bill oLfare is both 

 vegetal and animal. Amon^ insects we have met 



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with evident traces of Cratonyehus einereus, Har- 

 p 3,1 us compar, Casnonia pjnnsylvamea, Formica 

 sanguiuca, Tabanus linc^la, Tipula ferruginea, 

 Culex t(cmorhyncJiuS) in our stomach-examinations. 

 During the breeding- season it subsists upon and 



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feeds to its young the larva: of $nisopteryx ver- 

 nata, A. pometaria> 4 i. eaten iria, Ennomos sub- 

 signaria, Hybc.rnij, ti.l:a -/.<-, Euji+cJiia ribcaria, 

 Ckosrodes transvc.rsata, L f ma rosaccana, Lima- 

 codes scapha, Pieris rxp.c, C . ^ 'ici ze<z, Utetheisa 

 bella, T heel a humitH, Ha J .csi<io:a tcsscllaris, besides 

 aphides and micro-lepidoptera. In the autumn the 

 seeds of Amaranths albus, A. hybridus, A. panicu- 

 latus, CJieiwpodiiLrn album, Ambrosia artemisice- 

 folia, and many graminaceous plants as Phleum 

 pr a tense. Panic it m Crus-galli, P. capillare, Poet, 

 anmta, and Raphanus sativus, the cultivated salad, 

 and others. The berries of Junipcrns Virginiana, 

 Fi\i%aria Vlr^inica, and several species of Rubus 

 and Ribcs. 



The song of this sparrow is quite varied and 

 fine. Its notes are not powerful and cannot be 

 heard at a great distance, but are nevertheless 

 quite pleasing. It continues in the full vigor of 

 song while the second brood is hatching, when it 

 relaxes but does not altogether cease until its cle- 



