66 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



commonest. It is found east of the Mississippi only in the 

 winter when it may be associated with the Grasshopper 

 and Henslow's Sparrows. 



SHARP-TAILED SPARROW 



Passerherbulus caudacutits. Case 6, Fig. 47 



A buffy Sparrow with the underparts sharply streaked with 

 black. L. si- 

 Range. Salt marshes of the Atlantic coast; nests from Vir- 

 ginia to Massachusetts; winters from New Jersey to Florida. 

 Cambridge, formerly common S. R., but occurs no longer. 



An abundant inhabitant of salt marshes. There is, or 

 was, a colony on the Hudson River immediately south of 

 the long pier from which Piermont takes its name, but 

 with this exception I have never seen this Sparrow beyond 

 the sound of the surf. It runs about through the thick 

 marsh grasses taking wing only when hard pressed. Its 

 song is short and insignificant. It nests on the ground, 

 the 3-4 grayish white, finely speckled eggs being laid 

 in late May or early June. 



NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW 



Passerherbulus nelsoni nelsoni 



Resembles the Sharp-tailed but is smaller and has the throat, 

 breast and sides deeper, very slightly, if at all, streaked with 

 blackish; the upperparts more broadly margined with whitish. 



L. Si- 



Range. Nests in the interior from South Dakota northward to 

 Great Slave Lake; migrates south to Texas and southeast through 

 New York and Massachusetts to North Carolina and Florida. 



Washington, rare T. V., May-Sept. Ossining, tolerably com- 

 mon T. V., Sept. 28-Oct. 17. Cambridge, formerly uncommon 

 T. V. Glen Ellyn, one record, Oct. 2, 1893. SE. Minn., un- 

 common T. V. 



This is a fresh-water representative of the Sharp-tail 

 which nests in the prairie sloughs of the interior and reaches 

 the Atlantic coast during its migrations and in the winter. 



