412 : NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Length about 4.75-5.25, wing 2.10-2.20, tail 1.90-2.05. Eggs .74 
x .57. Hab. Eastern United States, north to Ontario and 
southern New England, west to edge of Great Plains; winters 
(60.) in Gulf States.. 547. A. henslowii (Aup.). Henslow’s Sparrow. 
d’. Tail decidedly longer than wing, its graduation greater than length 
of exposed culmen; bill small and slender, its depth at base 
less than length from nostril; no dusky rictal or submalar 
streaks. Adult: Median crown-stripe buff anteriorly, the rest 
pale buffy grayish or dull buffy whitish ; lateral stripes streaked 
blackish and brownish, the former usually predominating 
(nearly uniform black in summer) ; hind-neck streaked chest- 
nut and pale buffy or buffy grayish ; sides of head, including. 
broad superciliary stripe, buffy (deeper, almost ochraceous, in 
winter, paler, sometimes nearly white, in summer), the lores 
and ear-coverts light grayish or brownish, the latter bordered 
above by a blackish streak, becoming larger posteriorly ; ante- 
rior and lateral lower parts buffy, the sides and flanks streaked 
with blackish ; belly white; upper parts brownish, spotted or 
striped with blackish and streaked with whitish or buffy. 
Young: General color buff, deeper above, paler beneath, the 
belly whitish; upper parts streaked and striped with blackish, 
the chest, sides, and flanks more narrowly streaked with the 
same. Length 4.40-5.50, wing 1.87-2.06, tail 1.87-2.25. est in 
damp or marshy meadows. ggs about .75 x .50, speckled or 
spotted sparsely on larger end with brown and black (sometimes 
thickly speckled or sprinkled with brown). Hab. Great Plains 
and more western prairies, breeding from Dakota, Minnesota, 
etc., to Manitoba, migrating southward and eastward, in winter, 
through Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, etc., to South Carolina, and 
Gulf States from Florida to Texas. 
548. A. leconteii (Aup.). Le Conte’s Sparrow. 
b. Crown without distinct median stripe. West on or near ground, in 
marshes, supported between upright stalks of sedges or coarse grasses 
(sometimes in low bushes), composed of dried grasses or sedges, the en- 
trance occasionally through one side. Eggs 3-5, whitish speckled or 
spotted with brown. (Subgenus Ammodramus Swatns.) 
c’. Edge of wing very pale yellowish, supraloral streak deep buff or ochra- 
ceous, like the rest of the very distinct superciliary stripe ; malar 
stripe deep buff or ochraceous. (Above olivaceous, mixed or glossed 
with ashy, the sides of the back streaked with ashy, buffy, or 
whitish, the crown with two broad lateral stripes of sepia-brown 
enclosing a narrower and less distinct one of grayish; chest and 
sides more or less distinctly washed with buff or ochraceous (often 
deeply of this color) and streaked with dusky or grayish. Young: 
Above dull ochraceous, the back broadly streaked with black, and 
