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444. HENSLOW SPARROW. 



Size of last, but more slender; back and 

 wings more rufous; head and neck above 

 more greenish, distinct dusky streaks across 

 breast and on sides; no yellow over eye, 

 figs. 312 and 313. Breeds in eastern U. S. 



Fig. 312 



Henslow Sparrow. 



from Middle States northward to Mass.; 

 winters from southern range to middle Fla.; 

 south in Sept., north in May, local in N. E. 

 Frequents fresh marshy land in summer, 

 grassy savannahs in winter. Flight much 

 like two last. Song, a feeble se-e-e ivink, the 



