60 THE HENSLOW SPARROW. 
ing his shoes and trampling vigorously. Some such method would doubtless 
discover Grasshopper Sparrows’ nests, but it is not recomended. The eggs 
are quite unlike any others found in similar situations, but are likely to be 
foredoomed by the presence of one or more of those of the wily Cowbird. 
Two broods are usually raised in a season. 
The Grasshopper Sparrow is somewhat irregular in distribution, being 
abundant in some localities and unaccountably absent in others apparently no 
less favorable. ‘There is reason to believe that it is extending its range, es- 
pecially northward and eastward. ‘Thus, it made its first appearance in Lorain 
County in the spring of 1894, and has never been missing since. 
No. 28. 
HENSLOW SPARROW. 
). U. No. 547. Ammodramus henslowii (Aud.). 
Description.—Adult: Head above, nape, and sides of neck bright olive- 
buff ; crown glossy black separated by median buffy line, gradually mingling with 
the olive behind and passing out on the nape in a series of black spots; the feathers 
of the back and scapulars black, broadly margined with chestnut, and narrowly 
edged with whitish; wings chestnut, but bend and edge pale yellow, and flight- 
feathers fuscous; rump tawny saffron with black streaks : middle rectrices ‘and 
upper coverts rufous, with black shafts; below warm buff, paler and unmarked 
on chin, with heavy sagittate spots on breast and sides; middle of belly white; 
crissum tawny; lores and cheeks buff; maxillary and post-ocular stripes and 
rictal stripes enclosing auriculars, black; bill reddish brown; feet yellow. Young 
birds lack much of the olive-buff above, and are white rather than buffy below. 
Length 4.61 (117.1) ; wing 2.07 (52.6) ; tail 1.93 (49.) ; bill .42 (10.7). Females 
slightly smaller. 
Recognition Marks.—Warbler size; olive-buff of head and neck above con- 
trasting with chestnut and black of back; warm buff with black markings of 
breast and sides. 
Nest, similar to that of preceding species. Eggs, 4 or 5, pale greenish- or 
erayish-white, heavily dotted and blotched with reddish brown and lilac. Av. 
Size, .75) & -57 (19:1 x 1410): 
General Range.—Fastern United States west to the Plains, north to southern 
New England and Ontario. 
Range in Ohio.—Very rare or casual summer resident. Found in Lorain 
county, and during the season of 1894, only. 
