392 SPARROWS AND FINCHES. 



442. GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. 



Smaller; wings, very short; tail, graduated; 

 feathers, pointed. General tint, buff; crown 

 with light central stripe; above streaked 

 with rufous and black; line over eye to bill, 

 yellow; uustreaked beneath; young and 

 winter adults, obscurely streaked on breast, 

 with rufous, fig. 311. Breeds in eastern 

 U. S. from Middle States north to Mass, and 

 southern Ont. ; winters in Fla.; south in 

 Sept., north in May. Nests placed on 

 ground; eggs white, spotted with rufous. 

 Frequents sandy fields, if grassy, thus local 

 in distribution. Flight, fluttering and direct, 

 runs nimbly through grass and is difficult 

 to start. Song, given as bird perches on a 

 slight elevation, a feeble, stridulating trill, 

 inaudiable a few yards away. 



444. FLORIDA GRASSHOPPER 

 SPARROW. 



Smaller than last, lighter in buffy 

 tints, but darker above. Southern Fla. 



