.232 EEPOET OF NEW JEESEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Dr. S. D. Judd secured a young bird at Boonton, Morris county/ and 

 at Morristown Thurber (1887) states that it is a locally common 

 summer resident. Mr. Babson- states that Mr. Scott took several dur- 

 ing tlie summer in the neighborhood of Princeton. 



On May 22d, 1894, Mr. F. L. Burns found a nest on Peck's Beach.^ 



On May 30th, 1895, Mr. Stewardson Brown found Henslow's Spar- 

 rows at Forked Eiver, Kew Jersey,* and at about the same time Mr. 

 W. D. W. Miller found them on the mountains north of Plainfield. 

 In 1900-1902 Mr. Miller found them at various points in the Passaic 

 Valley, Great Swamp, etc., in the vicinity of Plainfield;' while in 

 April and May, 1902, Mr. S. N. Ehoads discovered them near Green- 

 wich, Cumberland county.* Since then, with our attention especially 

 directed toward this species, the Philadelphia ornithologists have lo- 

 cated the bird in fresh-water bogs all along the coast and at various 

 points in the pine barrens, even in a bog near Lindenwold, within five 

 miles of Haddonfield.^ 



In swamps occupied by Henslow's Sparrows the male may be seen 

 perched upon an old weed stalk, every now and then throwing back his 

 head and uttering an explosive '^chee-sliek." When disturbed he will 

 drop to the ground, and it is with difficulty that he is flushed, as he 

 prefers to run like a mouse here and there under the tufted grass. 



Mr. John D. Carter" found a nest and eggs of Henslow's Sparrow 

 near Marlton, in May, 1905, and another was found by C. J. Hunt, 

 l)elow Millville, July, 1908,^^ but they are exceedingly hard to locate. 



549 Passerherbulus caudacutus (Gmelin). 

 Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 



Adults. — Length, 5-5.7.5. Wing, 2.25. Above, olivaceous brown, mingled 

 with gray, and with light grayish-white streaks on the scapulars ; a broad, deep 

 buff stripe over the eye and another from the base of the bill, which curves up 

 around the auriculars and joins the first one ; wings edged with light brown ; 

 under parts, white, strongly suffused with buff on the breast, sides and under 



' Auk, 1897, p. 326. 



- Birds of Princeton, p. 6.3. 



= Auk. 1895. p. 189. 



* Rhoads, Cassinia, 1902, pp. 6-14, a full history of the bird in N. .T. 



= Stone, Cassinia, 1903, p. 76. 



" Cassinia, 1906, p. 62. 



' Cassinia, 1908, p. 16. 



