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going over my collection I concluded that the time had come to 

 make this record public. 



For the benefit of other ornithologists I will relate the circum- 

 stances in detail. One of my young parishioners at Tiffin, a farmer, 

 told me they were going to mow a rather swampy meadow of clover 

 on June 3 and said: "Those birds you showed me on May 28 on 

 that 7^ acre patch are nesting there, I believe." So I took my 

 camera outfit and tramped along the Big Four R. R. tracks three 

 miles northeast of Tiffin, jumped across a big ditch and slowly 

 Avorked my way over several swampy meadows to the above men- 

 tioned clover field. It was very wet and every ten feet a furrow 

 about six inches deep had been run through it lengthwise. Bobo- 

 links were all around us and a beautiful nest of the Meadowlark with 

 6 eggs was photographed at once. There were no Swamp, Song 

 nor Field Sparrows near, but there were Grasshopper Sparrows, 

 and we found two of their nests of five and four eggs. Almost in 

 the center of the meadow we flushed a sparrow from her nest of 

 four eggs, but I could not get a satisfactory view of it as it was 

 running through the grass, and unfortunately I had no gun with me. 

 We heard the faint note tse seep (thus it sounds to my ear) several 

 times, but try as we could we never again caught or flushed the 

 bird on the nest, although I was well nigh positive the species was 

 Henslow's Sparrow. The nest was sunk into the ground at the 

 base of a grass tussock near one of the furrows and arched over. 

 In taking the picture I did not use the tripod but simply placed 

 the camera on a higher grass tussock nearby. The day wore on, 

 but that sparrow was not to be caught; the next day I had to leave 

 town, and when the twilight was falling, I collected the nest and 

 eggs and it has rested in my collection since that day. 



Recently I wrote a letter to Mr. J. Claire Wood of Detroit, Mich., 

 a fellow member of the Wilson Club, who had taken the eggs and 

 nest of this bird in Michigan in 1905 (Auk, Vol. XXII, p. 416), 

 and he was so kind as to send me his set of four (now three) eggs 

 of this bird for comparison. His set and mine agree perfectly in 

 color pattern — - a wreath of reddish and lavender specks at the dull 

 end with numerous small reddish specks over the body of the egg 

 on a greenish ground color. The greenish tint of the groimd color 

 is more pronounced in his eggs than in mine, while mine are more 



