KIN- in:-. s!'.\i:i;ws. KTC. 



The song is insignificant a weak, musical little trill following a 

 gramhoppcrlike introduction is of MI. h -mull volume that it can ) 

 heard but few rods. It usually resembles /.<;/>- M//-M// ai'f-f-*'r-r-r. 

 More singing i> heard toward sunset, when of H quiet evening tin- 

 trills aru audible at greater distances. Each male seems to have H 

 number of favorite perches, weeds or fence post*, which are visited as 

 inrlimition dictates, but he is of too restless a disposition to remain 

 M any of them. The most familiar note is a sharp trip of alarm 

 or expostulation heard during migration, hut so constantly employed 

 by both sexes in the breeding season, even on slight provocation, that 



_-.-ts to think of them a veritable scolds. 



They are more likely to U- mistaken for the Vesper Sparrow, which 

 they resemble even in flight, than for any other except perhaps the 

 h ami Sharp-tailed Sparrows. J. DWIOHT, JR. 



546. Ammodranms savannarum passerinus ( H'7*.). - GRAM- 

 HurrKK SPARROW; YKI.I.ONV WI\.,KI> Sr.utliow. .!/. t'ppcr parts mixed 

 black, rufous-brown, ii-Ly, and cream -buff; crown blackish, a cream-buff 

 line through it* center; mij>e rufous- bn>\Mi, 

 each feather with a small black central 

 pot and bordered by ashy ; back black, 

 tin- feathers liordcred \<\ i-n-am-butT and 

 with a small cent nil tip of rut'<>iis- brown; 

 rump nit'nus I'p'wn anl a>hy ; an oruniro 

 mark iK-foix- the eye; In-nd <>t' the wing 



yellow . l,*er win*- covert* yellow i>h olive- """" 



preen ; ^n-uter <-..\i-rt tip|nil with whit- 

 ish ; Uil-feathers i>intr.l, "t" al><nit c-iual li-iiirtli. dark grayish brown, the 

 centers <>f the feathers darker, the end half t' the outer feather generally 

 du.-.ky wliitisli ; under part* generally not stn-ake>l ; breast and sides luitly ; 

 belly white. fun HI/ injirt jiluimiyt have the hreast spotted with blackish. 



!'.., -43. 



The \dlou on the wing, unstn-akcd under parts, even. jH.inted 

 tail, and grayish murk mi the outer tail-feather are the principal ehara 

 tlii.- |- 



Kan North America; breeds from the Cult" States northward 



i-vsachunctt* and Minnesota; winters from North Carolina to Cuba, 



Washington. \er\ c<>mmr.n S. H.. Apl. !' to < i.-t. _". Sin-/ >in.'. <-ommon 



.f.rid^e, ran- S. K.. May 1.1 t 



f gm.H.es. K-imi-tinie.-. lined with hairs, on the ground. /.</</*, four to 

 five, white, distinctly spotted and speckled with rufous, '73 x -M. 



Few common bird* may IK? more easily overlooked than the Yellow- 

 winged Sparrow. Its terrestrial habits and weak notes place it among 

 the birds that V.MI an- not likely to find unless you know how and 

 ;< look for them. I remember once introducing this bird and 

 iU aong to a visiting ornithological friend. On returning to his home, 



