BIRD GENEALOGY 



the bird is shown in the recent extension 

 of the breeding range of the prairie horned 

 lark from the central part of the continent 

 to New England. In 1889 it was first re- 

 corded as breeding in Vermont, and the same 

 year in central Massachusetts. In 1903 it 

 reached the sea and bred at Ipswich, and 

 has come there to raise its young ever since, 

 meanwhile increasing in numbers throughout 

 the New England states. 



The song sparrow has adapted itself in 

 twenty different forms to all parts of the con- 

 tinent, and is abundant almost everywhere. 

 Incidentally it is interesting to compare a map 

 of North America showing the various lingual 

 races of Indians with one showing the vari- 

 ous races of song sparrows. Both maps show 

 one extensive race in the more uniform East 

 —the Algonquin Indians, and the melodia 

 sparrow,— while both show in the diversified 

 surface of the extreme West numerous races 

 of both man and bird. 



What a contrast is the enterprise shown by 

 the song sparrow to the lack of enterprise in 

 the case of such a bird as the swamp sparrow, 

 for instance! Although first cousin to the 

 song sparrow, and although it is spread over 



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