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542a. Passercnlus sandwichensis savanna (Wils.). Savanna 

 Sparrow. 



Plumage of adults : prevailing color above dark brown, the centers of the 

 feathers blackish, margined rufous and ashy ; a yellow mark over eye and 

 on bend of wing ; wings and tail fuscous, the former margined on outer 

 webs with ochraceous buff and the latter with whitish ; below white, streaked 

 with blackish ; the streaks rather wedge-shaped on the breast ; throat rather 

 huffish. Immature specimens differ in the general color above being clay 

 color with dark streakings ; below with more or less of a buff suffusion, but 

 otherwise very similar to adults. Wing 2.65 ; culmen 0.44 ; tarsus 0.88 ; 

 tail 2.08. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, breeding from Missouri and northern 

 New Jersey to Labrador and Hudson Bay ; wintering from Illinois and Vir- 

 ginia (rarely from coast of Maine) to Cuba and Mexico. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; fairly common summer resident, (John- 

 son). Aroostook; not rare in the grassy river bottoms as summer resident, 

 even quite frequent in certain parts of the Woolastook Valley, (Knight). 

 Cumberland ; rare near Bridgton, (Mead) ; abundant summer resident, 

 (Brown, C. B. P. p. 13). Franklin; common summer resident, (Richards). 

 Hancock ; common summer resident of the outer islands and along the coast, 

 local inland, (Knight). Kennebec ; abundant summer resident, (Gardiner 

 Branch). Knox; summer, (Rackliff). Lincoln; common on the islands, 

 ( Norton). Oxford ; fairly common resident, (Johnson). Penobscot ; common 

 summer resident of the intervale lands and fields of the southern section, 

 very local in similar places in northern county, (Knight). Piscataquis; com- 

 mon, breeds, (Homer). Sagadahoc; common summer resident, (Spinney). 

 Somerset; common summer resident, (Morrell); seldom and local in the 

 northern county, (Knight). Waldo; common summer resident, (Knight). 

 Washington; abundant summer resident, (Boardman). 



The species is a common summer resident along the coast, 



even on the outer grassy islands, arriving in early April, from 



the second to the eighth, and departing during late September 



or early October; October seventh latest at Bangor. Capt. 



Spinney has taken a specimen at Seguin, positively of this 



species, January 24, 1897, which is in his collection, while Mr. 



Rackliff took one on Big Green Island, November 28, 1898, 



this being in the collection of Mr. Norton. We may however 



regard these winter specimens as extremes. Inland in suitable 



grassy fields, intervale lands and meadows along the rivers and 



streams they appear about the middle of April and leave in 



September as a rule. They are less abundant and more local 



