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BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 



REED BUNTING. WATER SPARROW. 



CHINK. BLACK BONNET. PASSERINE BUNTING. 



MOUNTAIN SPARROW. 



The nest is commonly placed on the ground, among 

 coarse grass, weeds, sedge, or rushes, on a bank near 

 the edge of the water which the bird frequents, and 

 occasionally in the lower part of some low bush or 

 stump, a few inches above the ground; sometimes it is 

 said to have been met with in a furze or gorse bush, 

 at a considerable distance from water; and Mr. Hewitson 

 relates that he has, though rarely, found it at an elevation 

 of two feet or more above the water, and supported on 

 a mass of fallen reeds. J. Barstow, Esq., of Garrow Hill, 

 near York, has informed me of one he found near there 

 on the Tth of July, 1852, in a hedge, about a yard from 

 the ground, some way from any pond: it contained four 

 eggs. It is composed of grasses and fragments of rushes, 

 lined with the down of the reed, a little moss, or finer 

 grass, or hair. 



