328 BIRDS 
FRINGILLID 4. 
mounts a stump or the top of a weed-stalk by the hour sometimes, sing- 
ing at short intervals his peculiar song, tsééééé, so high and monotonous 
that it has been aptly compared to the note of the grasshopper. Later 
in the season, as if the bird, tired of the monotony of its breeding note, 
changes it to a shorter and less monotonous se tek, the first syllable of 
which is prolonged, and after an interval the last is given quickly, 
abruptly, and strongly emphasized. More rarely a jew short and rapid 
notes are heard, as if the bird was trying to learn to sing. , 
The nest is placed upon the ground, usually concealed by a bunch of 
weeds, and built of grass, with a lining of horse hair. The eggs are four 
or five, white, with reddish-brown spots, and measure .75 by .60. | 
CorUERNICULUS HENSLOVII (Aud.) Bp. 
Eienslow’s Sparrow. 
Emberiza henslowt, AUDUBON, Birds Am.,, iii, 1841, 76, pl. 163. 
Coturniculus henslowi, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 366, 376; Reprint, 1861, 8, 
18; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric Rep for 1874, 566; Reprint, 1375, 6 —LANGDON, 
Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 8; Revised List, Journ. Cin Soc. Nat. Hist. 1, 1879, 175s 
Reprint, 9. 
Coturnicules henslowt, BONAPARTE, List, 1833, 32. 
Coturniculus henslovr, Cours, Birds N. W., 1874, 133, 
Resembling the last; smaller; more yellowish above, and with sharp maxillary, pec- 
toral and lateral black streaks below ; tatl longer, reaching beyond feet. 
Habitat, Eastern United States to New Hampshire; west to the Loup Fork of Platte. 
The specimen of this bird from which Audubon drew his descriptiom 
and ficure, was taken at Newport, Kentucky, opposite Cincinnati. 
He states that it is “accidental in Ohio.” Thespecimen obtained by 
me in 1856, in this vicinity, and which in 1861 I mentioned as being 
of this species, | now suppose to have been the young of the Yellow- 
winged Sparrow, a species with which 1 was not then acquainted. 
In all probability Henslow’s Bunting will be found not uncommon im 
restricted localities, particularly in the southern and western portions of 
the State. In habits, nest, and eggs, it is hardly to be distinguised from 
the preceeding species. | 
GENUS MELOSPIZA. Baird. 
Body stout. Bill conieal, somewhat compressed. Feet stowt, not reaching beyond 
the tail; tarsus a little longer than middletoe. Wings quite short and rounded, scarcely 
reaching beyond base of tail; the tertials considerably longer than the secondaries; the 
quills considerably graduated, the fourth longest. Tail moderately long and consider- 
ably graduated, 
