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SINGING BIRDS. 
grass for the most part, and the eggs are dusky white. He 
also adds that these birds inhabit Georgia the whole year, 
frequenting fences, brushwood, and thickets. 
Some years ago in Georgia in the month of March I ob- 
served these Sparrows in the open grassy pine woods, on the 
margins of small swamps or galls. On being suddenly sur- 
prised, they often flew off a little distance, and then, if followed, 
descended to the ground, and ran and hid closely in the tall 
tufts of grass. 
Their notes at this time were very long, piping, and ele- 
vated, and resembling often tshe tship tship (ship iship tship 
tship, then tshe ch' tsK tsh’ ts'h ts'h. Some of these notes were 
as fine and lively as those of the Canary, — loud, echoing, and 
cheerful. 
The food of this species consists of grass seeds, coleoptera, 
and a variety of small berries as they come in season. The 
sexes are nearly alike in plumage. 
This species occurs in the Gulf States and north to South Caro- 
lina and southern Illinois, but the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., is 
the only locality in which it has been found in abundance. Very 
little is known of its habits or of its distribution. 
Note. — The type of this species is larger and darker than 
bachmanii. It is restricted to southern Georgia and Florida, and 
has been named the Pine Woods Sparrow i^Peucaea cestivalis). 
LINCOLN’S SPARROW. 
LINCOLN’S FINCH. 
Melospiza LINCOLNI. 
Char. Above, streaked with brown, gray, and black; below, white ; 
band across the breast and on sides brownish yellow. Length about 
5% inches. 
On the ground, amid low bushes, along the skirts of marshy 
meadow, or on a dry grassy hillock in an open woodland ; composed of 
grass. 
4”5i green or bufSsh, — sometimes almost white, — thickly 
spotted and blotched with reddish brown and lilac ; o.8o X o.6o. 
