50 
1871. 
Coturnlculus henslovri. 
Middlesex County, Mass, 
May 22. 
June 17. 
21 , 
1872. 
May 13. 
1874. 
May 30. 
Shot one in Lincoln and two ii. Concord, the first 
xn a meadow where I saw a male in 1870, the remaining two 
where I saw one May 25, 1867. Both meadows are of a 
peculiar character, dry under foot, broken by numerous 
little hillocks covered with cranberry vines, and during 
our last visit June 17, with a rank growth of rue! The 
bird in Lincoln was accidentally flashed from the grass 
One of those killed in Concord was s inging,; it utter¬ 
ed a single s2.-i£^ at intervals of a minute or mors 
perching at the time on a tall weed stalk and becoming 
silent when we approached. These birds when pursued 
lie until almost troddon on, or run like mice through 
the grass. Their flight is erratic and variable, some¬ 
times nearly direct like that of a Sharp-tailed Pinch 
at others in deep undulating spreops, the bird rising or 
falling eight or ten feet on each curve. When they 
alight they drop suddenly in the grass. 
® the remale of which was In- 
100 ^ 0 ?®^ The male showed much anxiety perching on the 
tops of the woods and chirping incessantly. 
Cool '’Tldently brooding, on the 
excent This place is certainly 
CTasr oriieh Hr® ^Town up to tall herds- 
g , n high dry grass land bordered on one sid** bv an 
ZJ: i:“^‘'f-i, ““‘Te of the field, LZXr 
ta'irti, “.shallow depression filled with ranker grass 
beL^nn^nL"? Tt'' seaonn. The male on 
^ “PPT® “■eos here he perched 
l.ngthways on a branch In a crouching psoltlon^ I shot 
visit I failed to find either the female or the nest 
Shot a male on r>ock Meadow, Belmont 
ing steadily. 
It was sing- 
Throe seen on Captain Moore’s meadow. Concord 
from Th* t ^ fenialo, shot. The males sang 
from the tops of tall weed stalks; the song is faint and 
may be perfectly imitated by the syllables: Will givef 
L* "“*®Tvals Of about ten seconds ealh. They 
Wen sinnZ ^^““^tcuIus savapna. 
verT’cloL?*^ ®Tound they skulk like mice and lie 
thirty or foL 7 ‘’vaZ .T®®*' '‘aroly flying more than 
linos in thrllr 1 i describing deeply undulated 
lines in the air uko those of the Gold Pinch 
