PINE-WOODS SPARROW. 14S 



position of her nest by running out, as he approached, froni the bush beneath which it 

 was concealed. With elevated tail, running rapidly and silently away, they disappeared 

 among the shrubbery. In such cases a careful examination of the spot was sure to 

 result in finding an artfully concealed nest, either embedded in the ground or a few 

 inches above it in the lower branches of the bush. He did not find this species east of 

 the northern end of Great Salt Lake, nor was it seen in the neighborhood of Salt Lake 

 City, where the other species (A. bilineata) was so abundant. The eggs are light 

 greenish, marked all over with very fine dots of reddish-brown, and around the larger 

 end with a ring of confluent blotches of dark purple and lines of darker brown, 

 almost black. 



DESCRIPTION: Eesetnbling A. belli, but purer ashy above, with the dorsal streaks very distinct, instead of 

 almost obsolete. 



PINE-WOODS SPARROW. 



Peucsea ssstivalis Cabanis. 



Plate XXIV. Fig. 5. 



"p)T IS a beautiful April day, and the pine-barrens of south Florida are bespangled 

 al with millions of brilliant and charming flowers. The yellow bachelor's button' is 

 everywhere present. The Atamasco lily^ and Mrs. Mary Treat's zephyr flower', 

 closely allied to the former, are flowering profusely on the wayside. On the margin 

 of slow flowing creeks the honey bell or andromeda^ grows in dense thickets, its 

 fragrant waxy-white flowers hanging down in dense one-sided racemes. Its roots are 

 always kept moist by a thick matting of sphagnum moss. Associated with it we often 

 find a shrub with pretty, large leaves and showy white fragrant flowers. This is the 

 large-flowering pawpaw". The American olive", an exquisite broad-leaved evergreen 

 shrub or small tree, grows in the same localities. On the water's edge the umbels of 

 white flowers of the spider lily^ are expanding, filling the air with a strong vanilla-like 

 fragrance. On many places the ground is covered with the white waxy petals of the 

 large-flowering magnolia, and the air is heavy with the strong and indescribably sweet 

 perfume of the glorious flowers, which on their back-ground of large lustrous, leathery, 

 dark evergreen leaves cannot fail to fill the soul with joy and admiration. The more 

 we study this tree, the most beautiful of the American forest, the more we admire 

 and love it. On its limbs and trunk we notice a number of epiphytes, especially air- 

 plants of different species', ferns and orchids'. In the flat pine-woods near by, the saw- 

 palmetto'" forms dense thickets, imparting the landscape with a decidedly tropical 

 appearance. Usually five to six stems, several feet high, form dense clumps, and from 

 April to June, when the yellowish-green flowers open, the air is full of their grateful 



> Polygala latea. « Zephyranthes Atamasco. 3 Zephyranthes Treatiie. * Andromeda racemosa. o Asimia grandi- 

 ttora. « Osmanthus Americanos. 1 Hymenocallis Caribsea. a TWandsia utricalata, T. bracteata, T. Bartrami 

 » Epideadram canopseum and E. venosum. lo Sabal serrulata 



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