FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC.: CASSIN SPARROW 731 
in the Guadalupe Mountains, but it has not been recorded as yet in the Sacramento 
Mountains to the northward. The single specimen taken June 25, 1903, at 6,000 
feet, 10 miles north of Cabra Springs, was a long distance from the regular range of 
the species. 
It seems to be non-migratory and remains even in winter at about as high altitudes 
as it breeds.—W. W. Cooke. 
Nest. —Concealed under a rock overhung with dead grass, or under the leaves of 
a mescal; made of grass and lined with finer grass. Eggs: Usually 3, pure white. 
General Habits. —At 6,500 feet on the side of Mesa del Agua de la 
Yegua, a persistent sparrow song, tchee-dle , tchee-dle, tchee-dle y tchee-dle , 
tchee-dle, called our attention to a Scott Sparrow, perched on top of 
an oak bush with head thrown back singing with more fervor than his 
plain little song would seem to merit, but it was his best and came from 
a full heart. 
In the Huachuca Mountains, in Arizona, Mr. Swarth found the 
Scott an abundant resident, particularly in the foothill country covered 
with tall grass and a scattering growth of live-oaks (1904, p. 43). 
In the mountains of Cochise County, Arizona, Mr. Willard found the 
Arizona Junco and the Scott Sparrow the two commonest birds, the 
Sparrows being rarely found above 6,800 feet, and most commonly on 
the scantily covered lower ridges and foothills where scattering oaks, 
madrones, and scrub mountain mahogany were the only trees, and there 
was plenty of bear grass and mescal (1912b, p. 195). 
CASSIN SPARROW: Peucaea cassini (Woodhouse) 
Description. — Male: Length (skins) 5.1-5.8 inches, wing 2.3-2.6, tail 2.4-2.S, 
bill .4-.5. Female: Length (skins) 5.3-5.8 inches, wing 2.4-2.5, tail 2.5-2.7, bill 
.4-5. Bill moderate, wings short and rounded, tail much rounded, of narrowly 
linear feathers with rounded ends, feet small and weak. Adults: Upperparts sandy 
brown broadly streaked with light gray (top of head also streaked with blackish), the 
feathers of back and scapulars sandy brown with black shaft streak, black cross-bar 
near tip, and ash-gray margins giving the effect of spotting or barring; upper tail 
coverts with transverse, roundish, or cordate blackish spots, middle tail feathers with 
indication of transverse bars from black shaft streaks; edge of wing yellow; under¬ 
parts grayish, fading to white, tinged with brown on chest and sides. Young: Chest 
and upperparts distinctly streaked. 
Remarks. —In the field the sandy brown of the grav-streaked upperparts and in 
the hand the spotted or barred appearance of the back are diagnostic. The general 
color is decidedly paler than that of other birds having the bend of the wing yellow. 
Range. —Breeds mainly in Lower Sonoran Zone, from southeastern Nevada, 
Arizona, eastern Colorado, and Kansas south to mouth of the Rio Grande and 
northern Sonora; winters to southern Sinaloa and central Tamaulipas. 
State Records. —The Cassin Sparrow is found in the open hottest parts of 
southern New Mexico, and in the eastern part of the State from Roswell to Montoya, 
and to 5,000 feet at Cabra Spring (Bailey). [It was common in the Pecos Valley 
and throughout the eastern section of the State, especially on the Staked Plains south 
of Clayton, May 27-June 22, 1924 (Ligon).] It also ranges up in the foothills of 
