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Grasshopper Sparrows and Field Sparrows were in the same field. 

 It was a little higher than the fields on the Jersey coast, but 

 next to a low meadow where the Kildeers were calling. ' ' 



Mr. Baily made another search on May 30th, 1902, at Ocean 

 View, for the nest of this bird. Several individuals were seen 

 and an empty nest, which he describes as a " tiny bed of yellow 

 grass completely hidden right on the ground," was secured. 

 He describes it further: "As there was no sign of a hole in it 

 that I could see, I thought it nothing but a mouse nest, but 

 upon raising it from the thick-set grass I found it to be more of 

 a ball of long stiff grass lined with softer grass, but with only 

 an apology of a hole on one side right on the sod. From these 

 few experiences I have little doubt that many more fields in 

 New Jersey than the localities visited are summer homes of the 

 Henslow's Sparrow. Besides the little "che-tick" note com- 

 monly uttered, the bird has quite a song which I cannot well 

 describe, except to say that the notes are exceedingly rapid and 

 are jumbled together as in the song of the Winter Wren, though 

 instead of sounding like a ' cart wheel ' they resemble the 

 noise of a belt on a revolving wheel, or somewhat like ' screw- 

 zees, szrn-eezz-scir-en-eez. ' " The author would call attention to 

 the familiarity of this formula to that often adopted by the 

 Grasshopper Sparrow. 



Of great interest in relation to the inland distribution of this 

 species in New Jersey are the following notes made by a most 

 careful observer, our corresponding member, Mr. Waldron D. 

 W. Miller, of Plainfield, Union county. He writes: 



"I have seen many individuals, almost all of which were 

 singing the odd little two-syllabled song which you mention, 

 but have heard no other song. I've never found the nest of 

 this bird. 



' ' I first identified it four or five years ago, in the mountains 

 north of Plainfield. On July 15, 1900, I noted it for the first 

 time south of the mountains, except for one October migrant a 

 year or two before. Don't think I saw it again in 1900. In 

 1901 I found it May 5 and 12, near New Dover (west of Rah- 

 way), where it was doubtless breeding, as I met it in same 

 spot June 15, 1902. Also July 17, 1901, near Ash Swamp. 



