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31. Towhee. Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linn.) 
The Towhee is common in all localities in the Guest House 
neighborhood, wherever there are bushes in open areas, along the 
shrubbery of roads bordering broken woods, and basal hillsides with 
bushy spots under the ragged forest canopy. 
32. Song Sparrow.' Melospiza meloclia meloclia (Wils.) 
The Song Sparrow is one of the common birds of the Guest 
House neighborhood. On my first day at the Guest House, J une 9, 
I noted this sparrow as common in the shrubbery in all moist 
parts of the premises; and at the end of my stay in the second 
week of August, it was still carrying on the activities of the nest- 
ing season, feeding young in the bushy margins, and uttering 
occasional songs. On July 9 I found the nest of a Song Spar- 
row in the bushy clearing near the cabin of the Boy Scouts head- 
quarters at Kanahwauke Lake. It was in a clump of sprouts, about 
four and one-half feet from the ground, a site somewhat above 
the average selected by this sparrow. This nest was in upright 
forks, and in structure was somewhat unusual also in the amount 
of coarse weed stems, long pieces being bent clumsily around for 
the walls, and left extending out mostly all in one direction, the 
effect resembling the handle of a ladle. The inner part of this 
nest was made of soft grasses and horsehair. Coarse leaf frag- 
ments, bark and grasses were used for the base of the nest. There 
were two eggs in the nest on July 9. 
33. Field Sparrow. Spizella pusilla pus-ilia (Wils.) 
The Field Sparrow is common in the Guest House neighbor- 
hood, in the open shrubby margins of the woods, on cleared hillsides 
with scattered bushes, and in old pastures. Its singing in a little 
open area east of the House could frequently be heard on the 
Guest House premises. While this sparrow resembles its relative, 
the Chipping Sparrow, its singing is so different that it is unmis- 
takable after close attention. 
34. Chipping Sparrow. Spizella passerina passerina (Bech.) 
The Chipping Sparrow is one of- the familiar birds of the Guest 
House locality. Among my first notes at the Guest House, June 9, 
