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"sage" bush, composed of fine thin shreds of "sage-brush" bark, 

 dried grass-stems, etc. Eggs 3-4, .77 X -55, greenish white or dull 

 grayish white, speckled, chiefly on larger end, with reddish brown, 

 mixed with a few darker markings. Hob. Artemisia plains of 

 western United States, north to southern Idaho, Montana, and 

 Wyoming Territories, east to Colorado and New Mexico, south to 

 northern Mexico and interior of southern California (San Bernar- 

 dino County, etc.). 



574a. A. belli nevadensis EIDGW. Sage Sparrow. 1 



GENUS PEUC^A AUDUBON. (Page 386, pi. CX., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS. Adults : Upper parts more or less streaked with rusty 

 and grayish ; top of head streaked with brown, or rusty, and grayish, or else plain 

 rusty; no distinct light bands on wing; lower parts plain light dull grayish or 

 dull buffy, the belly white or whitish. Young : Above more tawny or bufly, and 

 more distinctly streaked, than in adult ; lower parts whitish or yellowish buff, the 

 chest, etc., streaked with dusky. Nest on or near ground. Eggs 3-5, plain white 

 or bluish white. 



a 1 . Tarsus not more than .85. 



b l . Lesser wing-coverts brown or rusty centrally, margined with paler. 

 c 1 . Edge of wing more or less distinctly tinged with yellow. 



d l . Middle tail-feathers without indications of distinct bars; flanks 



without distinct streaks. 

 e l . "Whole belly and lower part of breast dull white, the sides, 



flanks, and chest pale grayish buff (deepest on chest). 

 f l . Darker, the streaks on upper parts chestnut, the back 

 always (?) streaked with black ; length 5.60-6.25, wing 

 2.20-2.50 (2.35), tail 2.38-2.70 (2.57), culmen .50-.52 

 (.51), depth of bill at base .26-.2S (.27), tarsus .76-.80 

 (.79). Eggs .73 X -60, plain pure white. Hab. Florida 

 and lower Georgia. 



575. P. sestivalfe LIGHT. Pine-woods Sparrow. 

 / 2 . Lighter, with streaks on upper parts bright rusty, the 

 back often (usually?) -without black streaks; length 

 5.30-6.25, wing 2.35-2.60 (2.47), tail 2.55-2.70 (2.61), 

 culmen 52-.60 (.56), depth of bill .27-.29 (.28), tarsus 

 .75-.S3 (.78). Hab. Southern Atlantic and Gulf States 

 and lower Mississippi Valley, north to North Carolina, 

 eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, southern Illinois and 



1 With scarcely any doubt a distinct species. 



