THE IPSWICH SPARROW. 41 
Vest — outside depth 76; outside diameter 114; inside depth 51; inside 
diameter 51. 
Materials — dead grass and weed stems and a little green moss ; lined with 
fine sedge and a few horse-hairs. 
Site —in tuft of dead beach-grass on the boggy margin of a small pond. 
The grass arched over it. 
Nest E.— Sable Island, N. S., June 11, 1894. 
Eggs — five, much incubated, 20.6 X 15.8, 20.6 x 15.2, 20.3 X 15.5, 
20.6 x 15.8, 20.8 x 15.8. 
Vest — outside depth 64; outside diameter 102; inside depth 45; inside 
diameter 64. 
Materials — dead weed stalks ; lined with fine blades of sedge and a few 
horse-hairs. 
Szte — in hummock of blueberry bushes and rose bushes mixed with dead 
grass and growing sorrel. 
Nest F.—Sable Island, N. S., June 11, 1894. 
Vest (deserted) — outside depth 70; outside diameter 102; inside depth 
45; inside diameter 64. 
Materials — coarse, dead grasses and weed stems; lined with fine blades 
of a sedge and some bits of soft hair. 
Szte — under edge of sod, on a sloping bank. 
Foop. 
I am indebted to the Department of Agriculture for the results of the 
examination of the contents of fifty-six stomachs, all, save thirteen, of my 
own collecting. A summary of this material is as follows : — 
Animal Vegetable Gravel, etc. 
matter, Jo matter,% (chiefly sand), % 
rg summer specimens from Sable Island, N. S., 75.5 15.2 9-3 
37 winter specimens from Long Island, N. Y., 
and New Jersey, 7-3 57.8 34.9 
The large percentage of animal matter (insects chiefly) in the summer 
food of the Ipswich Sparrow is in striking contrast to the winter deficiency. 
Twenty-four of the winter specimens contained no animal matter at all, or 
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