120 



Sparrows singing every montli in the year. Following are dates wlien 

 their song was heard in this locality, for ten months of the year: 9-28; 

 10-12; 11-8; 12-14, '02; 1-21; 2-22; 3-4; 4-4; 5-1; 6-9, '03. On April 8, 1900, 

 one was observed singing during flight. Though not a performer of intri- 

 cate music, nor ostentatious either in his lay or his pretty self, to the 

 person to whom are familiar our country lanes as they appear in the 

 cool, quiet duskiness of vernal evenings, this domestic songster is the 

 most Avelcome and the most cheerful and cheering of singing birds. 



May 3, 1903, nest and four young in a small, thick cedar in a sink- 

 hole <C. G. L.). Many nests and eggs are found during the first week in 

 .Tune. 

 129. [583] Melo^pha lincolnii (Aud. ). Lincoln's Sparrow. 



Rare migrant: probably a more common and regular one. however 

 than can be inferred from the data at hand. 



MIGRATION RKCORD. 



130; [58i] Melospiza georgiarut {Liiith.). Swamp Sparrow. 



Common migrant. March 5 to April 29, October 2 to November 3. 

 •Reported by B. W. Evermann in winter, not seen by me before March 

 10'" (W. S. B.). There is a possibility that the Swamp Sparrow is an 

 occasional summer resident. A nest in the University collection from 

 this locality is identified as belonging to this bird. 



In speaking of the breeding grounds, A. W. Butler says: "There it 

 :^ings its song, but during the migrations it is songless." P. J Hartman 

 and the writer saw and heard the Swamp Sparrow singing during a steady 

 drizzling rain ilarch 8, 1903, the first date for the bird in that year. 



