to late in March in the moist thickets in Lee and Bastrop Counties, usually in places 

 where many other Sparrows congregated. One day I caught one in a figure-of-four trap 

 and placed it in a large cage together with about twenty-five of its congeners. It was 

 so extremely wild and unruly that it flew with great force against the bars of the cage, 

 thereby exciting all the other inmates in such a degree that I had to take it out again 

 and give it its liberty. 



NAMES: Lincoln's Sparhow, Lincoln's Finch, Lincoln's Song Sparrow. 



SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Fringilla lincolni And. (1834,). MBLOSPIZA LINCOLNI Bmrd (1858). 



DESCRIPTION: "Upper parts, streaked with black, bro\Ynish-gray, and grayish-brown; tail-feathers, narrow 

 and rather pointed, the outer ones shortest; nnder-parts, white, rather finely streaked with black, 

 a broad cream-baff band across the breast, a cream-buff stripe on either side of the throat ; sides 

 tinged with cream-btiff. 



"Length, 5.75 inches; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.40 inches. 



"Remark: The cream-buff band on the breast is distinctive of this species." (Frank M. Chapman.) 



FOX SPARROW, 



Passerella iliaca Swainson. 



Plate XXIV. Fig. 6. 



There comes from yonder height 

 A soft repiaing: sound, 

 AVhere forest leaves are bright, 

 And fall like flakes of light, 



To the ground. 



It is the autumn breeze 

 That, lightly floating on, 

 Just skims the weedy leas. 

 Just stirs the glowing trees. 



And is gone. 



-He moans by sedgy brook, 

 And yisits, with a. sigh, 

 The last pale flowers that look. 

 From out their sunny nook, 

 At the sky. 



Bryant. 



^HE pine-barrens near the Atlantic coast, fi-om New Jersey southward, contain much 

 to interest us throughout the year. Even in midwinter the beautiful hollies, kal- 

 mias, andromedas and other evergreens, often growing in dense masses together, add a 

 peculiar charm to the level landscape. October is especially beautiful in these pine-woods. 

 No frost has yet touched the woodlaiids, and the flowers and foliage were never more 

 beautiful than they are now. The ripened leaves of many shrubs and trees are as hand- 

 some as gaily colored blossoms. The flowers linger, many summer-blooming plants 

 throwing up side-shoots from the old stems. The swamp maples have donned their 

 deepest crimson and scarlet, and vie in brilliancy with the tupelos, whose spray-like 

 horizontal branches are covered with small fiery leaves. The sweet gum is a gorgeous 

 sight in its bright autumn colors. The aromatic sassafras is brilliant in yellow and 

 scarlet, while the sumach and many shrubs of the heath family (Bricacese) have turned to 

 deep crimson, shading to purple. Many old trees and stumps are clothed from base to 

 summit with Virginia creeper in most brilliant tints of crimson and scarlet, intermingled 



