314 NESTS AND EGGS OF 



M. Ingersoll, near San Diego, California > on May 5, 1887. Incubation 

 was commenced. The nest was about three feet above the ground, in 

 a small bush. The eggs are greenish- white, speckled principally at 

 the larger ends with cinnamon : .73 x .56, .73 x .55, .72 x .56 



5740. Amphispiza belli nevadensis (RIDGW.) [225*.] 



Sage Sparrow. 



Hab. Artemisia Plains of Western United States, north to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming Territories, 

 Cast to Colorado and New Mexico, south to interior of Southern California, and Northern Mexico. 



This bird abounds in the sage-brush deserts of Nevada, Utah, 

 New Mexico, and Arizona. Nests found near Carson City, Nevada, 

 are described as being artfully concealed, either sunken in the ground 

 or a few inches above it, in the lower branches of a bush ; they are 

 composed of sage-brush bark, dry grasses, etc. The eggs are light 

 greenish, marked all over with very fine dots of a reddish-brown, 

 around the larger end a ring of confluent blotches of dark purple and 

 lines of darker brown ; almost black ; size .80 x .60. Three or four are 

 the usual number deposited. 



575. Peucaea sestivalis (LIGHT.) [226.] 



Pine-woods Sparrow. 



Hab. Florida and southern portion of Georgia. 



The Pine-woods Sparrow is common in some localities of Florida, 

 where it breeds in May and June. In Alachua county, Florida, Mr. 

 Frank M. Chapman states that it is common only in one locality, a 

 high, open, palmetto pinery, where, May 21, 1887, a nest was found 

 with four fresh eggs. 



In a letter to Capt. Bendire, Mr. Chapman states that this nest 

 was placed beneath a scrub palmetto, and was constructed almost 

 entirely of fine, dry grasses. It was firmly made, and held well 

 together when lifted from the ground. It was not arched over in any 

 way, which seems to be the peculiarity in the nests of Peuc&a 

 (zstivalis bachmanii. The nest was perfectly round, with the sides of 

 rims everywhere of equal height, and was a symmetrical and well- 

 proportioned structure. Three of the eggs taken by Mr. Chapman 

 are in the National Museum collection, and are described by Capt. 

 Bendire as pure white, slightly glossy, and rounded-oval in shape; 

 sizes, .7ix.6i, .74x61, .7ix.6i. 



575 a. Peucaea aestivalis bachmanii (AUD.) [2260.] 



Bachman's Sparrow. 



Hab. South Atlantic and Gulf States, and Lower Mississippi Valley, north "to North Carolina, 

 Eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and west to middle Northern Texas. 



Mr. Arthur T. Wayne informs me that in the region about 

 Charleston, South Carolina, Bachman's Finch breeds in April, May, 



