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 April 29, the female began setting on three eggs. April 21 , 

 a completed nest was found, twenty-five feet up and seven 

 feet out on a Hemlock limb. April 30, the female was set- 

 ting on three eggs. The fourth nest was six feet up and 

 four feet out on a small yellow-pine in a yard. The female 

 was sitting on three eggs and a Cowbirds on April 23. Six 

 other nests were found in Spruces and 7mite Pines during 

 the last few days of April (April 23 to May 3), holding 

 either badly incubated eggs or young, bone with more than 

 three young and from eight to twenty^five feet above the 

 ground, all well out on horizontal limbs. The nests were 

 neat and pretty, all well built and warmly lined. As soon 

 as the young were hatched, the old birds became very quiet 

 and the males stopped singing. I had always suspected that 

 this bird nested here sparingly, but had hardly hoped to 

 find them as they roam like the Crossbills. 



540. Pooecetes gramineus gramineus ( Gmel . ) . Vespe-r Sparrow. 



The Vesper Sparrow or Grass Pinch is generally 

 abundant as a breeder in all the counties of the state. 

 About Philadelphia, it is not so common as elsewhere but 

 thruout the greater part of the state is one of the most 

 abundant birds. It is one of the characteristic species of 

 the open country and uplands, nesting anywhere in the open 

 fields, dry meadows, weedy uplands, or cultivated truck 



