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the shore, a httle distance from the usual haunt of the bullfinches, 

 but if this were true it is curious that we did not detect it, since we 

 were out at daybreak daily and even when at camp were within hear- 

 ing distance of the scrubs inhabited by these finches. 



On May 15 we found a nest placed in a thorn bush a little more 

 than a meter from the ground. The nest was relatively large, was 

 deeply cupped, and was constructed of grass and weed stems that 

 were arched up to form a dome over the top so that the interior was 

 completely shaded. It contained four fresh eggs, with the ground 

 color decidedly lighter than pale glaucous-green, spotted finely with 

 warm sepia, the spots being more or less confluent at the larger pole 

 of the egg and there forming a wreath. The eggs measure 22.4 by 

 14.7, 22.4 by 15, 23 by 14.3, and 23.4 by 15 mm. 



Another nest that had just been completed was located in a bush 

 a little more than half a meter above the ground and was of similar 

 construction, with the top partly covered, 



AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM INTRICATUS Hartert 



Dominican Grasshopper Sparrow 



mmodramus savannarum intricatus Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 19, Apr. 

 29, 1907, p. 73 (El Valle, Dominican Republic). 



Our first view of the grasshopper sparrow came on May 20, when 

 we saw one or two by the highway a short distance west of San Juan, 

 Dominican Repubhc. Later that same day, in a rolling prairie region 

 east of Las Cahobes, Haiti, we located two small colonies and collected 

 four birds in fine adult plumage. They were distributed through areas 

 of grass growing on hill slopes and flew out to alight in guava bushes 

 near the ground or to drop back again into the grass. 



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