THE IPSWICH SPARROW. 4 1 



Nest — outside depth 76; outside diameter 114; inside depth 51 ; inside 

 diameter 51. 



Materials — dead grass and weed stems and a little green moss ; lined with 

 fine sedge and a few horse-hairs. 



Site — in tuft of dead beach-grass on the boggy margin of a small pond. 

 The grass arched over it. 



Nest E.— Sable Island, N. S., June 11, 1894. 



Eggs — five, much incubated, 20.6 X 15.8, 20.6 x 15.2, 20.3 x 15.5, 

 20.6 X 15.8, 20.8 X 15.8. 



Nest — outside depth 64; outside diameter 102 ; inside depth 45 ; inside 

 diameter 64. 



Materials — dead weed stalks; lined with fine blades of sedge and a few 

 horse-hairs. 



Site — in hummock of blueberry bushes and rose bushes mixed with dead 

 grass and growing sorrel. 



Nest F. — Sable Island, N. S., June u, 1894. 



Nest (deserted) — outside depth 70; outside diameter 102 ; inside depth 

 45 ; inside diameter 64. 



Materials — coarse, dead grasses and weed stems ; lined witli fine blades 

 of a sedge and some bits of soft hair. 



Site — under edge of sod, on a sloping bank. 



Food. 



I am indebted to the Department of Agriculture for the results of the 

 examination of the contents of fiftj'-six stomachs, all, save thirteen, of my 

 own collecting. A summary of this material is as follows : — 



Animal Vegetable Gravel, etc. 



tnatter, <fo matter, (fo {chiefly sand), % 



19 summer specimens from Sable Island, N. S., 75.5 15.2 9.3 

 37 winter specimens from Long Island, N. Y., 



and New Jersey, 7.3 57.8 34.9 



The large percentage of animal matter (insects chiefly) in the summer 

 food of the Ipswich Sparrow is in striking contrast to the winter deficiency. 

 Twenty-four of the winter specimens contained no animal matter at all, or 



