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parts. This song is often uttered while the bird takes a short flight upward: it, then drops down again into the tangled weeds and grasses, where it is almost impossible to follow it” (Bull. Nutt. Urn. Club, \‘i, last, p. 57).

548. Ammodramus lecontei t .‘l’lt/J. Liceox' 'Siuxutow, 11t[.** No yellow before the eye or on the bend of the win;r ; a broad oehraeeousdtutl‘ line over the e_\'e. and a cream-bull line through the eenter ot' the blaekish crown; nape rutous~brown, each t'eather with a small black central spot and an ashy border: back blaek. the feathers margined first by rut'ous, then cream— butl' and whitish; tail grayish brown, with a slight rut'ous tinge, darker along the shaft: the leathers. narrow and sharply pointed, the l/(Itw’ ones much the shortest; breast and sides tinged with butl'y. and more, or less streaked with black; belly white. I... new; \\',. roe; 'l‘., mu”); 11.3.3.

li’l/I:/U.—" Great Plains and more western prairies. breeding t‘roni Dakota, Minnesota. etc.. to Manitoba. migratin;r southward and eastward. in winter, through Illinois, Iowa. Kansas, ete,, to South Carolina. and Gulf States from Florida to Texas “ (‘Ridngh

dist, of fine grits s on the ground. [ail/gs, three. delieate pink. lightly spotted with brownish and black near the iar; -r end. '75 x '50 tThompsen).

My experience on the coast of Texas with this elusive little Spar- row conforms with that of most observers. and the few specimens I found were in wet, marshes. Mr. L. M. liooniis. however, tells us that at Chester. South Carolina. where Leeonte‘s Sparrow is a locally com- mon winter \‘isitant. it shows a marked preference for dry “ old fields” of broom sedge (Auk. ii. 188-"). p. 190).

Few birds are more ditlieult to flush. It exhibits a rail-like disin- elination to take wing. and. flying low and feebly. makes for the nearest cover. I‘lrnest E. Thompson records it. as an abundant summer resi- dent in the willow slonghs and grassy flats of Manitoba, and describes its call-notes as a thin. sharp. \‘entriloquial [Iran]. and a single. long- drawu biz: .' while its song. whieh is delivered from some low pereh a little above the grass. is a tiny. husky. double-noted WWW) New». “so thin a. sound and so ereaky, that l believe it is usually attributed to a grasshomwr."

549. Ammodramus caudacutus (rim-I). SHARP-TAILICH Smu— Row. 4111.7(il‘ilt‘l‘2ll eolor ot' the upper parts a brownish oliw ‘eell; erown

olireibrown. with a him-Vera)" line through its eenter; gray tat-eorerts. in- eiosed by oehraeeous-lmti' lines, one ot'whieh passes over the e)” and one, down the side ot'the throat; t'eathers ot' the baek mamined with grayish and sometimes whitish: bend ot‘ the win;r yellow; tailiti‘athers narrow and sharply pointed. the outer t'eathers niueh the shortest; breast and sides washed with butl'y. paler in sunnner. and r/I'sl/m-t/y streaked with blaek; middle of the throat and belly white or whitish. " I“, 523.3; W., 2'30; T., 1'90;

13., 230 ” (Dwight).