. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . fencesand trees. It is one ofthe sweetest singers of ^^P^ ^P^°^ the morning and evening, the evening song giving it the name of vesper sparrow. Its notes are much like those of the song sparrow, but more plaintive. (Grass Finch; Bay-winged Bunting.) Length, Q\ ; wing, 3^ (2|-3|) ; tail, 2\; tarsus, |; culmen, |. NorthAmerica from the Plains eastward ; breeding from Virginia and Missourinorth to Nova Scotia, and wintering from south New Jersey Western Vespe
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . fencesand trees. It is one ofthe sweetest singers of ^^P^ ^P^°^ the morning and evening, the evening song giving it the name of vesper sparrow. Its notes are much like those of the song sparrow, but more plaintive. (Grass Finch; Bay-winged Bunting.) Length, Q\ ; wing, 3^ (2|-3|) ; tail, 2\; tarsus, |; culmen, |. NorthAmerica from the Plains eastward ; breeding from Virginia and Missourinorth to Nova Scotia, and wintering from south New Jersey Western Vesper Sparrow (540. P. g. confinis) averages slightlylarger, is grayer in color, and is found from the Plains to the Pacific. 18. Ipswich Sparrow (5-41. Ammdclramus princeps). — Arare, seacoast, brownish, much-streaked sparrow, with a white line over the eye, twobuffy wing bars, andsometimes a spot ofsulphur-yellow infront of the eye andon the bend of thewing. The upper partsIpswich Sparrow 3^^.^ streaked with brownish, black, and ashy; the lower parts are white, withstreaks of blackish and buff on the breast and 124 KEY AND DESCRIPTION Length, 6\ ; wing, 3(2|^-3^) ; tail, 2|; tarsus, |; culmen, f. Atlanticcoast; breeding in Nova Scotia, and wintering as far south as Georgia. 19. Savanna Sparrow (542. Ammddramxis sandwichensissavdnna). — A common, very streaky, ground sparrow, withsome yellow in front of the eyes and on the bend of wing;in habits, size, and coloring much like the vesper spar-row. The streaky under parts and the method of flying areespecially similar, but it lacks the chestnut bend of wing andthe distinct white under tail feathers of that species, only theouter edge being whitish. Length, i>\ ; wing, 2} (2J-2J) ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, J ; culmen, •^. EasternNorth America; breeding from northern New Jersey and Missouri toHudson Hay, and wintering from North Carolina southward. The West-ern Savanna Sparrow (542>. ^-1. s. alaudinus) has a smaller and m
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