Zaz THE BIRDS 
friends. On my own farm I have scattered the sweepings 
from the hay loft, with some cracked corn added, out on 
top of the snow, and always have a large flock gather 
within a few minutes. They breed in our higher 
mountains, Washington, Grayson, and Giles counties 
affording the best sites. They leave us in the coast region 
the latter part of March, a few remaining into April. 
The nest is a deeply cupped structure of fine grasses, lined 
with hair, placed under some overhanging root, rock, ledge 
or bank, thus well concealed and making them very hard 
to find. The eggs number four to five, a grayish-white 
ground, specked with reddish-brown. They have been 
taken more extensively in the Carolina mountains just 
south of our border, where they probably breed in greater 
numbers than in our State. I found them very abundant 
in Giles County, where they raise two broods. Fresh eggs 
April 25th, first setting; July 1st, second setting. They 
did not breed below 3,500 feet altitude. 
GENUS PEUCZEA. 
[575-A]. Peucea estivalis bachmani (Audubon). 
Bachman’s Sparrow. 
Rayer.—Southeastern United States. Breeds in 
Carolinian and Austroriparian zones in central Illinois 
(locally in southeastern Iowa), southern Indiana, 
southern Ohio, and central Virginia south to central 
Texas and extreme northwestern Florida; winters from 
southern North Carolina southward into Florida; casual 
near Washington, D. C. 
