. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . W, A. fisheri. Dif-fers from 1* in being much darker; more black above; thebreast and sides deep buffy. Breeds on the coast of La.; inwinter along the west coast of Fla. to Tarpon Springs. 4. DUSKY SEASIDE SPARROW, A. NiGRESCENS. Dif-fers from 1 in being black above indistinctly streaked withgrayish; white beneath broadly streaked everywhere withblack. Merritts Island and shores of Banana and IndianRivers north to the old Haulover Canal and about Salt Lake,upper St. Johns River, east Fla. Frequents dry , and manner of singing,
. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . W, A. fisheri. Dif-fers from 1* in being much darker; more black above; thebreast and sides deep buffy. Breeds on the coast of La.; inwinter along the west coast of Fla. to Tarpon Springs. 4. DUSKY SEASIDE SPARROW, A. NiGRESCENS. Dif-fers from 1 in being black above indistinctly streaked withgrayish; white beneath broadly streaked everywhere withblack. Merritts Island and shores of Banana and IndianRivers north to the old Haulover Canal and about Salt Lake,upper St. Johns River, east Fla. Frequents dry , and manner of singing, like 1. Common. Resident. 5. SHARP-TAILED SPARROW, A. CAUDACUTUS. ;sides of head, deep buff; spot below eye, gray; j^aler buff be-neath excepting middle of body which is white, much streak-ed on sides and across breast with dark-brown; top of head,dark-brown, with a median line of gray; upper parts, mixedolive-brown, ashy, and buff, fig. 289. Breeds on the Atlanticcoast of U. S. from Mass. south to northern Fla.; winters 220 SPARROWS AND from the Carolinas southward to northern Fla.; casually asFig. 289. far as Mass.; south in Oct.; north in May. Frequents rather dry marshes. Song, avery feeble twitter given as the bird hoversover the grass. Abundant. 6. NELSONS SPARROW, A. than 5, especially bill; brighter incolor; streakings above more sharj)ly de-fined; those below paler, often on the prairiemarshesof the Missis-sippi Yalley from northern 111. north toManitoba; winters along the Grulf coastfrom Texas east to the coast of S. C, occas-CC, F, j, 5. 1-4. ionally at this season and during migrationas far north as the coast of Mass. Time of migration as in ACADIAN SHARP-TAILED SPARROW, A. subvir-GATus. Differs from 5 in being more plainly marked, the backwithout conspicuous lighter streaks; sides of head, pale-buff;paler buff beneath. Breeds on the Atlantic coast of the Brit-ish Provinces from the mouth of the St. Lawrence southwar
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