. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 578. Cassins Sparrows Peucxa cassini. Range.—Plains and valleys from Texas and Arizonanorth to Kansas and Nevada. These birds breed in numbers on thearid plains, placing their grass nests onthe ground at the foot of small bushesor concealed in tufts of grass, and duringMay lay four pure white eggs which areof the same size and indistinguisliabl^from those of otliers of the !>79- RuFous-wiNGED SpARHOw. Aimophilu carpdlis. Range.—
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 578. Cassins Sparrows Peucxa cassini. Range.—Plains and valleys from Texas and Arizonanorth to Kansas and Nevada. These birds breed in numbers on thearid plains, placing their grass nests onthe ground at the foot of small bushesor concealed in tufts of grass, and duringMay lay four pure white eggs which areof the same size and indistinguisliabl^from those of otliers of the !>79- RuFous-wiNGED SpARHOw. Aimophilu carpdlis. Range.—Plains of western Mexico and north to southernArizona. This pale colored bird bears a remoteresemblance to the Tree Sparrow. They x— ■ ■nest commonly in dry arid regions, plac- / ing their nests at low elevations in /bushes or cacti, preferably young mes- \ - ;,•;;;.. >quites, and making them of coarse grass . ,, lined with finer. Two broods are raised Iluipi, wiiiiia season and from May to August setsof four or five plain bluish white eggs may be ,58U. RuFOus-CHOvv>jED Sparrow. Aimophila riificeps ruficeps. Range.—Local in southern half of California and in Lower California. A brownisli colored species both above and below, which is found on mount-ains and hillsides in restricted localities. They nest on tlie ground placing tlieirgrass structures in hollows, usually at the foot of a small busli or shrul) andwell concealed. They lay from three to five pale bluish wliitc eggs. .OSOa. Scotts Sparrow. Aimophila ruficeps scoiti. Range.—Western Texas, New Mexico and Arizona south in Mexico. A paler species, above, than the last, and whitish below. It is quite a common species on the mountain ranges wliere it nests on the ground, in clumps ofgrass or beneath shrubs or overhanging rocks; the nests are made of grassesand weeds scantily put together. The eggs are white, untinted. Size .80 x .60. .580b. Rock Sparrow, .limophila ruficeps eremceca
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