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Sbc TOarbler 





NEST AND EGGS OF GRASSHOPPER SPARROW 



like the stridulation of a grasshopper, was frequently heard in different parts 

 of the field. The parent bird was flushed from the nest when found and 

 there is no mistaking its identity. Eggs white with numerous small brown 

 spots. 



The Song Sparrow 

 {Melospiza cinerea melodid) 



ONE of the most delightful birds of North America is the Song Sparrow^ 

 occurring over the whole Continent in abundance and being found 

 everywhere dwelling near human habitation. In the primeval forests of 

 Northern Maine and Quebec I have invariably found one or more pairs of the 

 Song Sparrow nesting where a little clearing had been made and a logger's 

 cabin or sportsman's camp had been erected. It is found about all the 

 suburbs of the city of New York, though not nearly so abundant as the 

 Chipping Sparrow. Here at Floral Park, which is just outside the city 

 limits, it is not abundant, owing I fear to the great number of English 

 Sparrows which overrun the place, though a few pairs breed here every 

 season. One or two pairs at least nest about my lawn, — not on the ground 

 as is the custom of this species, but in dense shrubbery. For three years a 



