388 Birds of Colorado 
eggs, four or five in number, are greenish to greyish- 
white, thickly spotted and blotched with reddish- 
brown, and varying considerably in marking. They 
average ‘70 x ‘57. 
Two or three broods are often raised in the year. 
Dille gives May 29th as an average date for fresh eggs 
near Denver, Gale May 30th at Gold Hill, while Carter 
found a nest as late as July 5th, probably the 
second laying. 
Eastern Song-Sparrow. Melospiza melodia. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 581—Colorado Record—Cooke 97, p. 106. 
Description.—Very close to M. m. montana, but rather smaller ; the 
wing, tail and tarsus averaging less, but the bill distinctly stouter 
and more swollen ; coloration brighter and less grey. Dimensions of 
an average male: length 5-85; wing 2-60; tail 2-55; culmen -50; 
tarsus -82. 
Distribution.—Eastern North America, breeding from Manitoba to 
Virginia and wintering in the northern part of its breeding range and 
further south ; west to Kansas. 
Cooke identified one out of five Song-Sparrows taken at Fort Lyon 
by Capt. Thorne as the eastern subspecies. This is the only definite 
record for Colorado. On the other hand a Song-Sparrow from Argentine 
in eastern Kansas in the Aiken collection seems rather to belong to 
M. m. montana. 
Lincoln’s Sparrow. Melospiza lincolni. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 583—Colorado Records—Allen 72, pp. 157, 163 ; 
Trippe 74, p. 136; Henshaw 75, p. 283 ; Minot 80, p. 229; Drew 81, 
p. 90; 85, p. 16; Tresz 81, p. 43; Allen & Brewster 83, p. 189 ; Stone 
84, p. 20; Beckham 85, p. 142; 87, p. 125; Breninger 87, p. 191; 
Morrison 88, p. 74; Goss 91, p. 473; Cooke 97, pp. 19, 107, 216; 
McGregor 97, p. 38 ; Henderson 03, p. 236; 09, p. 237; Gilman 07, 
p. 157; Rockwell 08, p. 173. 
Description.—Male—Above brown, more olive on the back, more 
chestnut on the head and wings, conspicuously streaked with black ; 
median crown and superciliary stripes and sides of the neck ashy-grey ; 
ear-coverts browner, margined above and below by a postocular and 
rictal streak of black ; band across the chest continued forward to the 
malar region and backwards to the flanks, pale buffy; rest of the 
under-parts white, streaked with black throughout, except the centre 
