GRASSHOPPER SPARROW 745 



(Wiseton, Regina), southern Manitoba (Brandon, Winnipeg), and 

 western Ontario (Port Arthur) south to southwestern California (San 

 Diego), central Nevada (Eureka), northern Utah (Parley's Park), 

 central Colorado (Colorado Springs), western Oklahoma (Comanche 

 County), and central Texas (San Angelo, Waco). 



Winter Range. — Winters from central California (Clovis), western 

 and southeastern Arizona (Big Sandy River, Santa Catalina Moun- 

 tains), and central Oklahoma (Creek Countj'^) south to southern 

 Baja California (San Jos6 del Cabo), Guerrero (Chilpancingo), El 

 Salvador (Los Esesmiles), Veracruz (Mirador), southern Louisiana 

 (Baton Rouge), southern Mississippi (Saucier), and southwestern and 

 northern Georgia (Newton, Athens). 



Casual record. — Casual in Virginia (Blacksburg) . 



Egg dates. — British Columbia: 2 records, June 22. 



California: 11 records, April 4 to June 12; 4 records, April 14 to 

 June 12. 



Texas: 7 records, April 20 to June 7. 



Florida Grasshopper Sparrow {A. s. floridanus) 



Range. — The Florida grasshopper sparrow is resident in central 

 peninsular Florida (Alachua County, Lake Hicpochee). 



Casual record. — Casual in southern Florida (Cape Sable). 



Egg dates. — Florida: 15 records, April 2 to June 21; 9 records, 

 April 23 to May 8. 



Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow {A. s. ammolegus) 



Range. — Central southern Arizona south to Sinaloa and Morelos. 



Breeding range. — The Arizona grasshopper sparrow breeds in central 

 southern and southeastern Arizona (Huachuca Mountains, Fort 

 Grant) and adjacent northern Sonora (Nogales). 



Winter range. — Winters from southern Arizona south to Sinaloa 

 (Rosario), Morelos (Cuernavaca) , and Guatemala. 



AMMODRAMUS BAIRDII (Audubon) 



Baird's Sparrow 



PLATE 42 



Contributed by John Lane 



Habits 



On June 4, 1840, a 17-year-old youngster named Spencer Fullerton 

 Baird overcame his boyish difTidence and wrote the great naturalist, 

 John James Audubon, to inquire about a strange flycatcher he had 

 collected. When the bird proved to be a new species (the yellow- 

 bellied flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris) , Audubon, then GO, was so 

 impressed by the ability of his new acquaintance that a firm April- 



