FlNCllES, Sl’AltROWS, ET 7. 293 
     
    
   
   
    
     The song is insignificant—a weak, musical little trill following u. 
     
     grasshopperlike intl'oduetion is of such small volume that it -an be 
     
     heard but a few rods. It usually resembles [sip-Mp-tsI/f sé'E-E-s‘r-r-T. 
     
     More singing is heard toward sunset, when of a quiet evening,r the 
     
     trills are audible at greater distances. Each male seems to have a 
     
     number of favorite perches. weeds or fence posts, which are visited as 
     
     inclination dietates, but he is of too restless a disposition to remain 
     
     long,r on any of them. The most familiar note is a sharp {sip of alarm 
     
     or expostulation heard during migration, but so constantly employed 
     
     by both sexes in the breeding season. even on slight provocation, that; 
     
     one gets to think of them as veritable soolds. 
     
    

    
     They are more likely to be mistaken for the Vesper Sparrow, which 
     
     they resemble even in flight. than for any other except perhaps the 
     
     Ipswich and Sharp—tailed Sparrows. J. Dwain, JR. 
     
    
   
   
    
     546. Ammodramus savannarum passerinus( 1171s). Gimss— 
     
     nori'i-zic Sramtow; YietLow—wixoai) Smuuow. .l/lufil'pper parts mixed 
     
     black. rutbussln‘own, ash)‘. and cream—butt"; crown blackish, a cream-buff 
     
     line through itsventer; nape rutousda'own, 
     
     eat-h feather with a small black (-cntral 
     
     spot and bordered by ashy; bark black, 
     
     the feathers bordered by ereamdiutf and 
     
     with a small central tip of rulbus-brown; 
     
     rump rut‘ous—brown and ashy; an orange 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     mark before the eye; bend of the “int: 
     
    
   
   
    
     FIG. 83.—Tai1 of Grasshopper 
     
     Sparrow. 
     
    
   
   
    
     yellow, lesser \\‘i1|f_"-co\'erts yellowish olive— 
     
     grcen; greater corerts tipped with \\hit~ 
     
     ish; tailst'eathers pointed, of about equal length. dark grayish brown. the 
     
     centers of tho ti'utht-rs d: ‘ker. the. end half of the outer feather generally 
     
     dusky whitish; under parts generally not streaked; breast and sides bully; 
     
     belly white. You/1.4] injirst li/muum have the breast spotted with blackish. 
     
     L., 52%; W., 2%“: : T.. '79; 8., ‘43. 
     
    

    
     It. marks —']‘he yellow on the wing. unstrcakcd under parts. even, pointed 
     
     tail. and era} ish mark on the, outer tail-tL-athcr arc the principal characters of 
     
     this species. 
     
    

    
     It’ti/zg/u.——l‘3astern North Ameri -a: breeds from the (lnlt'States northward 
     
     to Massachusetts and Minnesota; winters from North ('arolina to Cuba. 
     
    

    
     Washinu‘ton. very common S. 11.. .\pl. 1.3 to (let. :17». Sing Sing, common 
     
     S. lL Apl. 27 to (M. 23. ('ambridee. rare S. 12.. May 15 to (f). 
     
     on the ground. 12:11:13, four to 
     
     live. white, distint-tly spotted and speckled with rut'ous, '72) x '54. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A} s]. of grasses. sometimes lllll'll with ha .. . 
     
    
   
   
    
     Few common birds may be more. easily overlooked than the Yellow— 
     
     winged Sparrow. lts terrestrial habits and weak notes place it among 
     
     the birds that you are. not likelv to find unless you know how and 
     
     where to look for them. I remember once introducing: this bird and 
     
     its song to a visiting ornithological friend. 011 returning to his home,