^ HENSLOW'S SPAKROW. 



Dimensions. Length, o.2o ; stretch, 7.12; wing, 2.17; 

 tail, 2.15; bill, .48; tarsus, .70. 



Comparisons. Distinguished at once by the slender form, 

 greenish buff colors of the head and upper parts combined with 

 the light, but streaked under parts. 



Nests and Eggs. Nests placed on the ground, composed of 

 grass and weeds and is lined with fine grass. Eggs four or five 

 in number, oval in shape, white in color, rather sparingly spot- 

 ted and blotched with reddish brown and lilac, the spots, 

 being usually more numerous about the large end than else- 

 where. Dimensions, .75 by .50. 



General Habits. Henslow's Sparrow is common as a sum- 

 mer resident in some portions of Eastern Massachusetts,' not- 

 ably at Tjngsboro ; it is also quite numerous in some portions 

 of Worcester County and near Amherst; also a few occur in 

 Burkshire County. 



It has also been found in north eastern Connecticut, at 

 Webster, New Hampshire, and at Pownal, in southern Ver- 

 mont. They winter in northern Florida. I have said that the 

 Yellow-wings are ground loving Sparrows, and this is most 

 emphatically true of Henslow's Sparrows. They are seldom 

 seen at any great elevation above the surface ; even the males 

 when singing, frequently do not emerge from the grass, and 

 at best merely perch upon some low shrub or fence rail. 



They are very expert in running through grass and weeds 

 making their way among the herbage with nearly as much 

 agility as do mice, and when started fly a few yards, their 

 movements, being very rapid and eccentric. They arrive 

 from the south early in May and depart late in October. 



