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Melospiza lincolni» 
On the intervale between Lakeside Hotel and the Lake shore are 
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wo patches of cultivated ground which owing to neglect, are now 
densely covered with tall weeds , which ,ever since my arrival, have 
been thronged with Sparrows, chiefly Song & Swamp Sparrows with a 
few White-throats and Chippies and an occasional Savannah. I have 
beaten these places repeatedly for Lincoln's Pinches but have found 
none until this morning when I saw at least seven, four of which I 
shot. All of them started from the weeds well out in the field and 
flew to the bushes and brush heaps along the border of the woods. 
I had no difficulty in distinguishing them from the Song Sparrows 
They lay closer than either and both sitting and flying looked 
smaller and slenderer. Their flight was peculiar and charaeteristic 
very level, direct & rather swift yet feeble and whirring, like thitfc 
of a Marsh Wren. On reaching the bushes they would at once dis¬ 
appear but I foundit easy to call them out again by making a low 
screeping sound. When in the bushes they seem to be less active 
tham the other Sparrows and addicted to sitting perfectly still for 
several minutes at a time. When alarmed or suspicious,however, 
they would jerk their tails up and sideways much in the manner of 
a Gtothlypis . During the entire forenoon I did not once hear any 
of them make any sound whatever. There were ten or twelve White- 
crowned Sparrows with them 
Of those shot three were males, one a female. All were excess¬ 
ively fat. 
