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A July nest of Clay-colored Sparrow, 

 blotched. Typical set of five eggs, rare. 



Eggs 



VOL. XVI. NO. 11. ALBION. N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1899. Whole No 160 



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Clay-colored Sparrow. 



The ornis of the Red River Valley, in 

 Northern Minnesota, is unique, in many 

 ways. 



Birds plentiful further south, are here 

 uncommon; and we have a few breed- 

 ers that are never seen in Southern Min- 

 nesota, except in migration Few ob- 

 servers, probably, are accustomed to 

 note the Clay-colored Sparrow, in the 

 Middle United States, on its way north; 

 and fewer still, one is confident, are ac- 

 customed to identify it, as breeding in 

 Central Minnesota. To most of us, in 

 our earlier years of field study, all the 

 small sparrows seen are chipping spar- 

 rows; and that is all there is about it. 



Nevertheless, the Clay colored Spar- 

 row does nest in Central Minnesota, — 

 at least as far south as Minneapolis. I 

 am even inclined to believe, from low- 

 placed nests of a Spizella, found in 

 Steele county, Minn., that this sparrow 

 will be found nesting along the south- 

 ern border of the state. Just here we 

 note the changed character of our north- 

 ern ornis\ and realize how big our 

 western states may be. In the Red 

 River Valley, pallida almost entirely 

 replaces socialis; becoming, moreover, 



