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search for nests was fruitless. He considers this variability in 

 the abundance of the species characteristic, as it is quite in line 

 with his experience at Pt. Pleasant. 



Continuing with Mr. Baily's notes, he says: "While at 

 Ocean View, N. J., about two miles above the station, and 

 almost directly back of Corson's Inlet, on the 16th of June, 

 1900, I heard from my window the peculiar little note of the 

 Henslow's Sparrow just as the sun was going down, and they 

 kept it up until darkness was actually setting in. In the after- 

 noon I went by wagon back into the woods about three miles to 

 a cedar swamp, and there were the Henslow's again in the 

 same field with Grasshopper Sparrows. It was another large, 

 open, low field, thickly overgrown with bramble as well as weeds 

 and Indian grass. A chirping young bird, just out of the nest 

 and unable to fly, was located after considerable exertion, and 

 was photographed, while the parents kept at a distance, show- 

 ing very little anxiety. The young bird had a breast clear of 

 spots, and as I learned afterwards, was undoubtedly a Hen- 

 slow's Sparrow. This find of a young bird, June 16th, would 

 seem to prove that the eggs were laid between the 20th and 25th 

 of May. 



" I was again at Ocean View June 20th, and again found the 

 birds in front of Charlie Wright's house, where I had seen them 

 before, in a field iust above the wet sea meadow grass, acting 

 just about as I had seen them before. 



"As I had visited so few places on the coast, I began to think 

 that whenever they do find suitable places just back of the 

 meadows, these little-known sparrows are likely to occur. I 

 had frequently been to Ocean View before, and in these very 

 same fields before my 1895 trip to Point Pleasant, but had not 

 seen the birds, probably because I did not know them. 



"As an illustration, to show how insignificant the note of the 

 bird is, and how Hkely it is to be missed, in 1901, May 18th, 

 at Hursley, Md., while crossing a thick clover ard bramble 

 field with Dr. Hughes, I heard the Henslow's familiar " che- 

 tick, ' ' and immediately looked for an expression of recognition 

 on the doctor's face, but was disappointed; even after the note 

 had been repeated three or four times he failed to notice it. 



