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It is but quite recently that attention has | the Savannah Sparrow, only slightly more 

 been paid to this bird in the United States, ' ovoidal in form. They are the most beau- 

 but so iutensL' had been the desire among ' tiful Sparrow eggs 1 have ever seen, the 

 Pi"-eon fancieis to become possessed ot'him, | briglit i\'(l ol' the spots, which are very fine, 

 that hirge importations have been made | contrasting well with the white ground col- 

 trom BclLnum. The flying of these birds ■ or, reminding one of the more beautiful of 

 lon^ distances has become quite a mania, the Warblers' eggs." 



and" has attracted universal attention all I have since then found several nests of 

 over the country, from all chisses of persons, this bird, most of them in the same locali- 

 A grand iuter-kate eoucouise was flown in ties and under the same circumstances as 

 June of last sea- 



season by birds 

 from s e v e r a 1 

 States, tlie dis- 

 tance being 150 

 mih'S. It was 

 <|uiti' an impos- 

 ing as well as in- 

 teresting sport. 



Yellow-wing'- 

 ed Sparrow. 



4 NUN (J our 



CO m m o n f r 

 Spari'ows, prob- 

 alily none is less 

 known than tliis 

 one, especially as 

 i-t'gartls its nest 

 and eggs. It is 

 no where as a- 

 bundant as most 

 of the (jther Spar- 

 rows, but as I 

 liave been so for- 

 tumite as to find 

 sevei'al nests of 

 this bird, 1 will 

 uive a short des- 



TIIE VOYAGEUR PIGEON. 



the above. The 

 eggs are mostly 

 of the same gen- 

 eral appearance, 

 but some arc; oc- 

 ciisionally more 

 thickly spottefl 

 than others. The 

 action of the bird 

 when the nest is 



- being inspected, 

 does not differ 

 materially from 

 that of any other 



_ Spari'ows, oidy 

 that its mourn- 

 ing is possibly 

 less incessant. ]t 

 i-uns quickly off 

 the nest until at 

 some distance, 

 then flies up and 

 connnences to ut- 

 tei- a chipper. It 

 is thus extremely 

 difficult to find its 

 nest, unless the 

 bird is almost 

 stejjped upon and 

 suddenly fright- 

 ened, and since 



ci-iption of one, taken from my note-book it is a somewhat wary biid, it rarely per-' 



of May 2r)th, 1876. mits itself to be flushed immediately from 



•' The nest was placed on the ground un- the nest. The youug birds appear about 



dor a single tussock of grass, in an open tlie first or secoud week in June. I do 



pasture lot. The nest was formed of small not think they rear two broods, 

 roots, twiiis, and lined with horse-hair. It Fhed. J. Davis. 



was impossible to remove it. 'J'here were —.»♦" 



four eggs in it, pure white, spotted with a Kuitou. — For unscrupulous, p. 45, 10th 



bright red, mikI about the size of those of line, read scrupulous. 



