119 



MIGHATION RECORD. 



127. [57oa] Pew-va nafivalis harhmanii {Axid.). Bachman's SpaiTow. 



Common migrant and not uncommon summer resident. April 6, — . 



"April 24. 1884, Prof. W. S. Blatchley took two Bachman's Sparrows 

 from a brush-pile in Monroe County. That Avas its first record there. 

 It appeared regularly thereafter between April 6 (1885) and April 29 (1886). 

 In 188() two sets of eggs and perhaps a half-dozen taken (Evermann)" 

 [A W. Butler]. Song April 7. 1903. Common April 12, 1903; 31 of these 

 birds were seen in a single high. l)rushy meadow. Here and in clearings 

 where there are many oak saplings and in the uneven pastures where 

 rosebushes and stunted cedars are plentiful, Bachman's Sparrow is most 

 often found. 



MIGRATIOX RECORD. 



128. [581] Melospizachvi-fa mdodia (Wils.). Song Sparrow.* Fig. 20. 



Abundant during migration; common at other times but more so in 

 winter than in summer. The Song Sparrow is not a common bi'eeder here. 



The most common songster, whose value is enhanced bj- his habit of 

 singing when most other birds are silent. The writer has heard Sonj; 



