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but not abundantly. The nest is built, like the two preced- 

 ing species, on the ground, in the same localities, and of the 

 same materials ; but the eggs are different, being pure-white 

 in color, with thinly scattered spots of reddish-brown : they 

 are usually five in number, and their dimensions vary from 

 .78 by .60 to .74 by .58 inch. Two broods are often reared 

 in the same season. Its habits are similar to those of the 

 Savannah Sparrow. 



COTURNICULUS HENSLOWI. Bonaparte. 

 Henslow's Bunting. 



Emberiza Henslowi, Audubon. Orn. Biog., I. (1831) 360. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) 

 App. 



Coturniculus Hensloivi, Bonaparte. List (1838). Ib., Consp. (1850), 481. 

 FringiUa Henslowi, Nuttall. Man., I. (2d ed., 1840) 571. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Upper parts yellowish-brown ; the head, neck, and upper parts of back tinged 

 with greenish-yellow ; interscapular feathers dark-brown, suffused externally with 

 bright brownish-red ; each feather with grayish borders ; tertiaries, rump, and tail 

 feathers abruptly dark-brown centrally, the color obscurely margined with dark-red ; 

 crown with a broad black spotted stripe on each side, these spots continued down 

 to the back; two narrow black maxillary stripes on each side the head, and an 

 obscure black crescent behind the auriculars; under parts light brownish-yellow, 

 paler on the throat and abdomen ; the upper part of the breast, and the sides of the 

 body, conspicuously streaked with black; edge of wing yellow; a strong tinge of 

 pale-chestnut on the wings and tail. 



Length, five and twenty-five one-hundredths inches; wing, two and fifteen one- 

 hundredths inches ; tail, two and fifteen one-hundredths inches. 



This bird is an extremely rare summer resident in New 

 England. It can hardly be called any thing but a strag- 

 gler, and Massachusetts seems to be its extreme northern 

 limit. 



It has been found breeding near Lynn in this State, and 

 at Berlin (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VII. p. 137). 

 Allen captured a male at Springfield on May 18, 1863, and 

 heard another at the same place in June. These few 

 instances are all that I have heard of its occurrence here. 

 Of its habits I know nothing. 



