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depression in the ground, arched over, and the female 
seldom rises when flushed from it, running off some 
distance in the tall grass before taking flight. It is com- 
posed of fine grasses and rootlets, lined with finer grass 
and rootlets. Fresh eggs, four to five in number, May 
20th, are a glossy white, sparingly spotted and blotched 
with reddish-brown, occasionally some lilac. Size, .72x.55. 
Thev do not winter with us, arriving the latter part of 
April. In going to and from work every day my path 
led across a field having two or three pair of these birds 
resident, and though I took a different route across 
that field dozens and dozens of times, I was unable to 
locate any of the pairs breeding in it until after the voung 
were over half grown and had left the nest. They are 
sociable little fellows, seldom minding man’s presence in 
close proximity to their home; how much so one will 
readily understand when I say a pair built in a straw- 
berry patch while the patch was being worked, and later 
picked. Occasionally two broods a season. They leave 
for the south about September 20th. Their food consists 
of ants, larvee, insects, and the seeds of weeds and grasses. 
GENUS PASSERHERBULUS. 
[547]. Passerherbulus henslowi henslowi (Audubon). 
Henslow’s Sparrow. 
Rancr.—Eastern United States. Breeds in Transition 
and Upper Austral zones from central Minnesota, Ontario, 
New York, and southern New Hampshire south to 
southern Missouri and northern Virginia (on the seacoast 
to southeastern Virginia, Norfolk and Princess Anne 
counties); winters in southern United States to Texas 
and southern Florida. 
