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 full song, June 19, near Lopez, Sullivan County. During 

 the last two weeks of July, 1904, Mr. John D. Carter dis- 

 covered a small colony of these birds at Pocono Lake, Monroe 

 County, where the birds apparently breed regularly. There 

 were several pairs that ranged over a hillside sloping 

 down to the eastern shore of the lake and covered with a 

 growth of birch, huckleberry bushes, and epilobiura (Cassinia 

 1904). June 16, 1906, Mr Carter found anest of this species 

 here containing four fresh eggs and a downy young bird, 

 evidently a Cowbird. It was sunken fluch with the ground 

 under a huckleberry bush and built of grasses, rootlets, arid 

 bark strips, lined with find grasses. The nest was discov- 

 ered thru the attempt of the female to sneak off unseen. 

 In June, 1907, I made a search for these birds at Pocono 

 Lake and, fcho I found at least five pairs of birds, was un- 

 able to locate any nests, but on June 20, 1907, Mr. W. L. 

 Bailey found a nest there containing five eggs. 



560. Spizella passerina passerina (3ech . ) . Chipping Sparrow. 



The Chipping Sparrow or Chippy is an abundant 



bird generally distributed thru the state and nesting in 



every county, irrespective of fauna and life zones. It is 



essentially a bird of the open, farming country and the 



suburban districts, nesting usually close to the vicinity 



the 

 of a house, often in a A vine of a porch, or a shade tree, or 



