Melospira lincolni 
189 0. ^ \ ' 
Sept .84, \fj e started, and. shot two Lincoln's Sparrows to-day in the hill 
side pasture behind Sargents. Both were in wet hollows among the 
Jo*' 
same fine, dry, wild grass* in which we found some of these birds 
yesterday. One was alone, the other in company with a Song Sparrow 
Both lay very close rising ’under foot and flying about 100 yds. 
The flight of one was level and whirring- almost exactly like a 
Harsh Wren's. The other flew like a Song Sparrow, One sought ro¬ 
uge in a bunch of ferns, the other in a brush fence 
Started one from close cropped turf in a pasture on the edge 
of belt of young maples into which it flew alighting in a leafy 
maple where it sat perfectly motionless peeping out at me past the 
stem until I shot it. This specimen as well as all the others shot 
thus far proved to be very fat.Of the five three were males, one a 
female and the fifth bird apparently a female. 
