THE WILSON BULLETIN 



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FIELD NOTES 



TWO BACHMAN'S SPARROW'S NESTS NEAR BARDSTOWN, 

 KENTUCKY 



Though Bachman's Sparrow {Pcuccea (vstivalis hachmani) is by 

 no means a rare bird in certain favorable localities near Bards- 

 town the finding of a nest has, until this year, been one of the 

 unsolved problems concerning the birdlife of this locality. On 

 April 26th, 1921, and the two days following, it was my good for- 

 tune to observe a pair of these sparrows nest building. The loca- 

 tion was the corner of a wheat field; a clover field adjoined it on 

 one side, and a narrow strip of pasture land bordered by a thicket 

 extended along the other. At the time I was busy with team " snak- 

 ing " out poles from a clearing in the thicket. The sparrows came 

 to the edge of this clearing for nesting material and apparently 

 were not at all disturbed by our operations. The male generally 

 accompanied the female as she carried the nesting material, and, 

 frequently, he sang while she searched over the ground for the 

 piece of dead grass suited to her needs. But the song seemed to 

 come from far out in the wheat field, yet the bird was only ten 

 yards away. Once the female came within twenty-five feet of the 

 team to get a piece of grass, and many times we passed ten or 

 twelve yards distant from the nest while the female sat on the 

 fence nearby. On May 2nd the first egg was laid, and the following 

 day there was a second egg and also a Cowbird'e egg. Two days 

 later the eggs had disappeared and my hopes for a set of Bach- 

 mn's Sparrows disappeared with them. The nest was five yards 

 from the wire fence and about three yards back In the wheat. It 



