74 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



Where 'scrub' oaks grow beneath the pines, or post, 

 or white oaks form open woods, there one may look for this 

 rather retiring, sweet-voiced Sparrow. If one can imagine 

 a Hermit Thrush singing the Field Sparrow's chant, he 

 will have some conception of the rare quality of Bachman's 

 Sparrow's song. The nest is built on the ground, the 

 white unmarked eggs being laid early in May. 



The Pine Woods Sparrow (P. <b. cBstivalis), is a darker 

 race, more streaked above with black. It is resident in 

 Florida (except the northwestern part) and southern 

 Georgia where it frequents pine forests undergrown with 

 scrub palmetto. 



SONG SPARROW 



Melospiza melodia melodia. Case x. Fig. 34; Case 4, Fig. 43 



Streaked below, with a conspicuous spot in the center of the 

 breast. 



Range. Most of North America, the eastern form west to the 

 Rockies, nesting from Virginia and Missouri to Canada and 

 wintering from Illinois and Massachusetts to the Gulf. 



Washington, common P. R., abundant T. V., Mch. and Oct. 

 Ossining, common P. R. Cambridge, very abundant S. R„ 

 Mch. 10-Nov. 1; locally common W. V. N. Ohio, P. R., abun- 

 dant in summer, common in winter; Olen Ellyn, common S. R. 

 Feb. 12-Nov. 2. SE. Minn., common S. R., Mch. 16-Nov. 11. 



If the so-called 'English' Sparrow is the European Spar- 

 row, the Song Sparrow is the American Sparrow. He is 

 found in every State and from the Valley of Mexico to 

 Alaska. He is abundant, musical, and familiar and 

 probably better known than any other member of his 

 family native to this country. His is one of the first 

 birds' songs to be heard in the spring, and the last in the 

 fall, and when in midsummer, the adults, while molting, 

 are silent, the rambling, formless song of the young may 

 be heard. 



Usually the Song Sparrow is found near water and not 

 far from bushes into which he flies when alarmed. Then 



