412 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Length about 4.75-5.25, wing 2.10-2.20, tail 1.90-2.05. Eggs .74 

 X -57. Hob. Eastern United States, north to Ontario and 

 southern New England, west to edge of G-reat Plains ; winters 

 in Gulf States.. 547. A. henslowii (Auo.). Henslow's Sparrow. 

 d z . Tail decidedly longer than wing, its graduation greater than length 

 of exposed culmen ; bill small and slender, its depth at base 

 less than length from nostril ; no dusky rictal or submalar 

 streaks. Adult : Median crown-stripe buff anteriorly, the rest 

 pale buffy grayish or dull bufFy whitish ; lateral stripes streaked 

 blackish and brownish, the former usually predominating 

 (nearly uniform black in summer) ; hind-neck streaked chest- 

 nut and pale buffy or buffy grayish ; sides of head, including, 

 broad superciliary stripe, buffy (deeper, almost ochraceous, in 

 winter, paler, sometimes nearly white, in summer), the lores 

 and ear-coverts light grayish or brownish, the latter bordered 

 above by a blackish streak, becoming larger posteriorly ; ante- 

 rior and lateral lower parts buffy, the sides and flanks streaked 

 with blackish ; belly white ; upper parts brownish, spotted or 

 striped with blackish and streaked with whitish or buffy. 

 Young : General color buff, deeper above, paler beneath, the 

 belly whitish; upper parts streaked and striped with blackish, 

 the chest, sides, and flanks more narrowly streaked with the 

 same. Length 4.40-5.50, wing 1.87-2.06, tail 1.87-2.25. Nest in 

 damp or marshy meadows. Eggs about .75 X -50, speckled or 

 spotted sparsely on larger end with brown and black (sometimes 

 thickly speckled or sprinkled with brown). Hob. Great Plains 

 and more western prairies, breeding from Dakota, Minnesota, 

 etc., to Manitoba, migrating southward and eastward, in winter, 

 through Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, etc., to South Carolina, and 

 Gulf States from Florida to Texas. 



548. A. leconteii (AuD.). le Conte's Sparrow. 



& 2 . Crown without distinct median stripe. Nest on or near ground, in 

 marshes, supported between upright stalks of sedges or coarse grasses 

 (sometimes in low bushes), composed of dried grasses or sedges, the en- 

 trance occasionally through one side. Eggs 3-5, whitish speckled or 

 spotted with brown. (Subgenus Ammodramus SWAINS.) 

 c 1 . Edge of wing very pale yellowish, supraloral streak deep buff or ochra- 

 ceous, like the rest of the very distinct superciliary stripe ; malar 

 stripe deep buff or ochraceous. (Above olivaceous, mixed or glossed 

 with ashy, the sides of the back streaked with ashy, buffy, or 

 whitish, the crown with two broad lateral stripes of sepia-brown 

 enclosing a narrower and less distinct one of grayish ; chest and 

 sides more or less distinctly washed with buff or ochraceous (often 

 deeply of this color) and streaked with dusky or grayish. Young : 

 Above dull ochraceous, the back broadly streaked with black, and 



