SAVANNAH SPARROW, 
Savannah This Sparrow is one of the early birds of 
Seer spring in New York and New England, its 
Passerculus 
sandwichensis Carliest appearance in New York being 
Raa March 23d, and in New Hampshire 
L.5.75 inches (Hanover) April 9th. In the autumn it 
March 25th =i, abundant from the first to the middle 
of October, the southern migration ending between 
the 25th of October and the 15th of November. A 
few of the birds remain all winter in the vicinity 
of Washington, D. C. Very closely related to the Grass- 
hopper Sparrow, its song and colors are in many respects 
similar; upper parts streaked with sepia, brownish red 
and ashen gray somewhat deeper than the coloring of the 
Vesper Sparrow, a yellow stripe over the eye, a streak of 
gray white in the centre of the crown, under parts dull 
white tinged with buff and streaked with sepia on the 
breast and sides, the spot in the centre of the breast definite 
but not conspicuous, legs and feet pinkish, tail rather 
short. The range of this species is from central Keewatin 
and northern Ungava to northern Iowa, Pennsylvania 
and Connecticut; it winters from New Jersey and Indiana 
south to eastern Mexico and Cuba. Its common haunts 
are open grassy fields, wet meadows, and the edges of salt 
marshes on the coast of New England, Long Island Sound, 
and New Jersey. Nest, on the ground snuggled beneath a 
clump of sedges or tall grass, composed of grasses ,moss, 
and a few hairs. Egg, blue-white heavily flecked with 
burnt sienna brown, cinnamon brown, and dull purple 
madder. 
The song of the Savannah Sparrow is an extremely high- 
pitched, stridulent, rippling trill or reiterated note, nearly 
but not quite a monotone. It is similar to the song of the 
Grasshopper Sparrow although that zs a monotone; it 
begins with two or three chips, sharply staccato, which 
introduce a high trill first on one tone and finally on another 
perhaps a semi-tone lower, there is this distinct division of 
the reiterated note from one tone to the other however slight 
the musicalinterval may be. That is not the case with the 
. Grasshopper Sparrow, and it should not require a‘very 
sharp ear to detect this fundamental difference. Here 
is my studied transcription of the music. It is important 
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