SONG SPARROW. 
MELOSPIZA FASCIATA. 
Cuar. Back streaked with black, bay, and ash; crown bay, streaked 
with black and with two stripes of ash; wings grayish brown edged with 
dull rufous ; tail grayish brown, with dark wavy cross-bars , below, white ; 
breast, sides of throat, and sides of body spotted with brown, the spots 
forming a “ patch ” on the breast. Length 6 to 6% inches. 
Nest. Ina field or open pasture, amid a tuft of grass or under a low 
bush, sometimes fastened to bush or vine, occasionally placed in a cavity 
in a tree; composed of twigs, grass, roots, and leaves, lined with grass 
and roots, or hair. 
Eggs. 3-7 (usually 4 or 5); dull white or with tint of green, blue, or 
pink, thickly marked with several shades of brown occasionally un- 
spotted ; 0.80 X 0.60. : 
This familiar and almost domestic bird is one of the most 
common and numerous Sparrows in the United States; it is 
also, with the Bluebird, which it seems to accompany, one 
of the two earliest, sweetest, and most enduring warblers. 
