. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . or squats. Itsnarrowly streaked breast and the absurdly large beakshould identify it. Grasshopper Sparrow. Coturniculus savannarum passerinus Ad. — Upper parts streaked with black, rich chestnut, and gray;line through the crown buff; under parts huffy, unstreaked. Im.—Breast spotted with blackish. Nest, on the ground. Eggs, white, spotted with reddish-brown. The Grasshopper Sparrow is a common
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . or squats. Itsnarrowly streaked breast and the absurdly large beakshould identify it. Grasshopper Sparrow. Coturniculus savannarum passerinus Ad. — Upper parts streaked with black, rich chestnut, and gray;line through the crown buff; under parts huffy, unstreaked. Im.—Breast spotted with blackish. Nest, on the ground. Eggs, white, spotted with reddish-brown. The Grasshopper Sparrow is a common summer residentof southern New England and the lower Hudson Valley,but is rare in most ofMassachusetts; in NewHampshire, it is foundonly here and there inor near the valleys ofthe Connecticut and theMerrimac, and in Maineit does not occur. It iscommon in certain sec-tions of Massachusetts,as on the dry, sterile fields of Nantucket, or the extensiveplains in the Connecticut and Sudbury valleys, where theground is siindy and the. grass not too luxuriant. The birdarrives late in April or early in ]\[ay, and remains till Sep-tember. It utters its insect-like soncf from some tall weed or low. Fig. 50. Grasshopper Sparrow 170 BIRDS OF NEW EXGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK post, and sometimes from the very ground. The song is soshrill that it takes a sharp ear to catch it. It is almost ex-actly like the stridulation of the green grasshopper, com-mon in low grass-land {Orchelimum vulgare), tsickj tsick,tsurrrrrrr. The call-note consists of two notes, tillic, almostrun together into one. The flight of the male from his sing-ing perch is curiously feeble and fluttering. From other grass-loving sparrows, the huffy unstreakedunder parts should distinguish it. Savanna Sparkow ; Savannah Sparrow. Fasserculus sanclivichensis savanna Ad. — Upper parts brown, streaked with blackish; a yellow lineover each eye, and a narrow white stripe through the centre of thecrown; breast and sides rath
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