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in favorable localities. Mr. John F. Ferry found four younj.,^ birds of 

 this species unable to fly near Woodruff. 

 Vilas Co., Wisconsin, on June 20, 1908. 



The song is characteristic and very 

 pleasing, a clear musical whistle, a sug- 

 gestion of which may be had by playing 

 the following notes on a fife: 



The nest is on the ground or in low trees or bushes. The eggs are 

 4 to 5 in number, pale brown or greenish blue, spotted and speckled 

 with reddish brown, and measure about .S2 x .60 inches. 



J rr tiT u/eg 



Genus SPIZELLA Bonap. 



259. Spizella monticola (Gmel.). 



Thee Sparrow. 



Distr.: " Eastern North America, west to the Plains, and from the 

 Arctic Ocean south, in winter, to the Carolinas, Kentucky, and east- 

 ern Kansas. Breeds north of the United States, east of the Rocky 

 Mountains." (A. O. U.) 



Adult: Top of head, rufous brown, a gray stripe over the eye and 

 a narrow rufous stripe extending from the eye backward; a short 



Tree Sparrow. 



narrow streak of rufous on side of throat, from base of lower mandi- 

 ble; back, streaked with rufous brown, black and pale buff; rump, 

 brownish gray; breast, grayish w^hite, with an obscure dusky mark 

 or small irregular spot in the middle; belly, dull white; sides of body, 

 pale brownish buff; wing coverts, with black centres broadly edged 

 with rufous and tipped with white, forming a noticeable white wing 



