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ground. ‘The eggs,” says Dr. Brewer, “ five or six in number, 
somewhat resemble those of the C. passerinus. Their ground- 
color is a clear bright white, and they are spotted with well- 
defined reddish-brown markings and more subdued tints of 
purple. The markings, so far as I have seen their eggs, are 
finer and fewer than those of C. passerinus, and are distributed 
more exclusively around the larger end. The eggs measure 
‘78°60 of an inch, and are of a more oblong oval than those 
of the common Yellow-wing.” 
(c). The Henslow’s Buntings are very rare in Massachu- 
setts, though said by Mr. Maynard®! to seem ‘‘more common 
at some localities in the State than” their immediate relations, 
the Yellow-winged Sparrows. Like these latter birds they fre- 
quent fields (and chiefly, so far as my observations prove, those 
which are dry or sandy), and are always on or near the ground. 
They feed on seeds and insects, and easily secure the smaller 
beetles, etc., from the facility with which they run and make 
their way among the weeds and grass. Mr. Maynard® has 
recorded that he ‘‘took two males in a wet meadow on May 
10, 1867,” whose “‘ song-note” was ‘like the syllables ‘seé-wick,’ 
with the first prolongedly and the second quickly given.” I 
have seen the Henslow’s Sparrows here only in May and the 
warmer part of summer; but, though Massachusetts is consid- 
ered as their northern limit, I have suspicions, upon which I 
shall not here enlarge, that they occur in at least one spot 
among the White Mountains. I may add that this species was 
at first recorded in this State as Bachman’s Finch (Peuccea 
cestivalis), an error afterwards corrected. 
(d). Mr. Ridgway, as quoted by Dr. Brewer, speaks of 
‘¢the tail being depressed, and the head thrown back at each 
utterance” of their notes. 
61As quoted by Mr. Allen in his “Notes on Some of the Rarer Birds of Mas- 
sachusetts.” 
62 In his “ Naturalist’s Guide,” p. 117. 
