Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked 



544b. Lagoon Sparrow (P. 7. ialophilus). Similar 

 tu No. 544a, but laigei , W- 2.7, and daiker; streaks on 

 Chest with little if any brown edging; differing from No. 

 54^, in more uniform coloration of upperparts, in less 

 narrow and decidedly blockish streaks on chest, etc. 



Ran^e. — Salt njar:»hE!Sp Abreujus Pulut. Lower California. 



544c. San Benito Sparrow (P. t. sanctorum). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 54-4, but bill more slender; above grayer 

 (brownish gray') distinctly streaked with blackish, the 

 streaks margined with brown; below streaked with 

 Uack, the streaks narrowly margined with brownish. 



RTng;^. Breeds on San Benito Island, Lower California; in winter 

 W Cape Region of Lower Chlifornia. 



545. Balrd SparrQW (Cotumimlus hatTdit). L. 5.7. 

 Tail-feathers pointed, middle ones shortest, Ads. 

 Crown yellowish brOwn, streaked with black; back 

 black margined with chestnut and grayish; below 

 whitish, breast and sides streaked with black, in 

 fall and winter, colors • richer. NoUs. Song, '■Hrick-e- 

 trik-eeees-MhyU-rait, with a peculiar tinkling utter- 

 ance." 



Range. — Great Plains; breeds from western Minnesota. North 

 Daliina. eastern Montana, norlh to Manitoba and Asslntboia; winters 

 south to Texas, Arizona an^.New Mexico. (Ridgw.) 



546. Grasshopper Sparrow (Coturmcuhis savanna- 

 rumpassirmus). L. 5.3. Line before eye orange; bendof 

 wing yellow; tail-feathers pointed. Ads. Crown black 

 with a buffy central stripe; nape chestnut and gray; 

 back black, chestnut buff and gray; below buffy, un- 

 streaked, belly whitei^ Notes, Call, a sharp chip; 

 song, a weak, \nsect-\\k& ptt-tuck, ^ee-e-e-e-e-e-e. 



Range,— Eastern Nortti America, west to the Plains; breeds fion 

 the Gulf States to Massachusetts. Vermont, and Minnesota; winters- 

 from North Carolina to Cuba and Mexico. 



546a. Western Grasshopper Sparrow (C. i. hi- 



macuUtus). Similar to No. 546, but paler below and 

 with less black and more chestnut above. 



Range. — Western United States from ihe Plains to the Pacilic; 

 breeds from Mexican border stales north to Montana and British Col- 

 umbia; winleri iouth iiilu Me-\li;o. 



546b. Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (C. s. florid- 

 anus). Similar to No. 54&, nut smaller, W. 3; darker 

 above, paler below; sides of crown almost solid 

 black; chestnut above largely replaced by black. 



Range. — KIssimmee Prairies, Florida. 



547. Henslow Sparrow {Ammodramus henslomi). 

 L. 5. Rend of wing yeliow; tail-feathers pointed, the 

 outer ones much the; shortest. Ads. Crown and 

 nape pale olive-green streaked with blackish; ba;.k 

 bright reddish brown slreaked with blacli and gray; 

 below white; breast and sides washed with buff and 

 streaked with black. Notes. Call, tee-wiok; song, sis- 

 r r rit-srit-srit. (Jouy.) 



Range. — Eastern North America; breeds locally, from Virginia and 

 Missouri, north to New Hampshire, southern Ontario and Minnesota; 

 winters from Virginia and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. 



547a. Western Henslow Sparrow [A. b. Occidents- 

 lis). Similar to No. S47, but paler, in summer little or 

 no buff below. 



Range.— Central western slates; breeding, so far as known, In South 

 Dakota: In winter south to Texas. 



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