IN THE FLAT-WOODS. 15 
versatile singer than the performances of my 
first bird would have led me to suppose. 
He varies his tune freely, but always within 
a pretty narrow compass; as is true, also, of 
the field sparrow, with whom, as I soon came 
to feel, he has not a little in common. It is 
in musical form only that he suggests the 
swamp sparrow. In tone and spirit, in the 
qualities of sweetness and expressiveness, 
he is nearly akin to Spizella pusilla. One 
does for the Southern pine barren what the 
other does for the Northern berry pasture. 
And this is high praise ; for though in New 
England we have many singers more brilliant 
than the field sparrow, we have none that 
are sweeter, and few that in the long run 
give more pleasure to sensitive hearers. 
I found the pine-wood sparrow afterward 
in New Smyrna, Port Orange, Sanford, and 
Tallahassee. So far as I could tell, it was 
always the same bird; but I shot no speci- 
mens, and speak with no authority.!_ Living 
1 Two races of the pine-wood sparrow are recognized 
by ornithologists, Pucea estivalis and P. estivalis bach- 
manit, and both of them have been found in Florida ; but, 
if I understand the matter right, Pucewa estivalis is the 
common and typical Florida bird. 
