BiEDS OF Indiana. 943 



are full of these little Sparrows in full song. Some find cover in the 

 fields of English clover, or wheat stubble. The greater number, how- 

 ever, leave at this time. This occurred in 1897, July 14. I found 

 them still common in fields of English clover August 3, 1897, and 

 the last were noted August 6, still singing. About that time cutting 

 of the large clover began, and they disappeared. Some years a few 

 remain later than this, but they quit singing, and skulk along the 

 grassy and weedy fence rows, and are hard to find. In 1894 I found 

 them as late as September 25, and that same year they remained at 

 Sedan until October 20 (Mrs. Hine). Mr. V. H. Barnett reported 

 it at Trafalgar, Brown Count)'-, October 23, 1897. 



''212. (547). Ammodramus henslowii (Aud.). 



Henslow's Sparrow. 



Adult. — Tail feathers, narrow, sharp-pointed, outer ones much the 

 shortest, middle ones bright rufous-brown, darker along the shafts; 

 others darker, edged with ashy; bill, large; crown, blackish, divided by 

 a middle stripe of pale olive-green; stripe over eye and sides of head 

 and nape, pale olive-green, which also tinges the back; a black stripe 

 behind the eye, and one from the comer of the mouth, and usually 

 ©ne, more or less distinct,- on each side of upper throat; back, brown, the 

 feathers marked with black and edged with grayish; tertiaries and' 

 rump, chestnut-brown, more or less grayish edged. Below, whitish, 

 more or less shaded with buffy; breast and sides streaked with black 

 (wanting in young). Edge of wing, yellow. 



Length, 4.75-5.25; wing, 2.10-2.20; tail, 1.90-2.05. 



Range. — Eastern United States. Breeding locally from Maine, Vir- 

 ginia north to Nebraska, northern Indiana and Michigan. Winters 

 from Illinois south to Gulf of Mexico. 



Nest, in meadow, prairies or neglected fields; on ground in tuft of 

 grass; of dry grass and hair. J^ggs, 4-5; greenish or grayish white, 

 rpeckled and blotched with different shades of brown and lilac; .75 

 by .57. 



Although Henslow^s Sparrow has never been taken in southern In- 

 diana it probably occurs as a migrant, but is overlooked because it is 

 Bot readily recognized. Audubon drew his description and figure 

 from a bird of this species taken at Newport, Ky., across the river 

 from Cincinnati, 0. In the northern portion of the State in the wet 

 prairiefs and marshes, they breed in companies in certain localitieo. 

 The first record I have from this State ii a specimen taken by Mr. C. 



