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Bird Studies. 



feathers, the outer ones being much the shorter. The birds are about five 

 inches and four fifths long. The prevailing color of the upper part is olive green 

 with a decided brown tone. The crown is olive brown, divided by a grayish 

 median line. The region about the ears is gray. There is a buff stripe 

 above the eye defining the crown, and a buff stripe on either side of the 

 throat, reaching to and defining the gray region about the ears. The bend 

 of the wing is yellow. Each feather on the back is edged with grayish or 

 obscure white. The lower parts are generally white, washed on the breast 

 and sides with buff, which regions are definitely streaked with black. 



SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. 



The birds build on the ground a nest of grasses, reeds, and seaweed, 

 lined with fine grasses. Three or four eggs are laid. These are white, 

 finely dotted with reddish brown. They are a little more than three quarters 

 of an inch long and nearly three fifths of an inch broad. 



This form of the Sharp-tailed Finch is found during the breeding season in 



the marshes, generally near the salt water of Southern New Brunswick, Prince 



Edward's Island, and Nova Scotia. The birds are a little 



tailed Sparrow, l^^gei" than the Sharp-tailed Finch and similar in color on 



Ammodramus caudacutus the Upper parts. The throat as well as the breast and sides 



subvirgatus Dwight. ^j.^ p^^^ f^^^y ^^^ obscurely streaked with ash gray. 



The Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow migrates south along the Atlantic 

 Coast to South Carolina in winter, and during that season and in their 



