Ank, XII, April, 1895, 9 * / £ 
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Ammodramus henslowii. Henslow’s Sparrow. — While engaged in 
collecting a few shore birds on the 22nd of May, 1894, upon Peck’s Beach, 
I ran across a nest of this Sparrow. It was placed at the brink of a small 
sand dune, the top of which was about six feet above the level of the 
beach. The nest was sunken flush with the sand and directly against the 
roots of a solitary bunch of grass. The bird did not leave the nest until 
I had approached within three feet and almost touched her breast with my 
finger, when she flew to the edge of a thicket of bayberry and holly 
bushes some distance away, and, while protesting vigorously, did not come 
near or call up her mate. The nest, of bleached sedge grass with a lining 
of fine grass stems, contained four partly incubated eggs of a very light 
greenish to grayish white, thickly speckled and spotted with chestnut and 
hazel, with a very little Vandyke brown here and there. The markings 
were confluent at the larger end in two and at the smaller end of the 
remaining two eggs. One egg also shows many olive gray shell 
markings. They measure .71 X .63, .70 X .62, .70 X .62, .70 X .62, and 
are short ovate to oval. — Frank L. Burns, Berwyn, Chester Co., Pa. 
