usical, and familiar and
probably better known than any other member of his family native to this
country. His is one of the first birds' songs to be heard in the spring,
and the last in the fall, and when in midsummer, the adults, while
molting, are silent, the rambling, formless song of the young may be
heard.

Usually the Song Sparrow is found near water and not far from bushes
into which he flies when alarmed. Then we hear his characteristic
call-note, an impatient _chimp_, _chimp_, unlike that of any other of
our Sparrows. The nest is built on the ground and the 4-5 bluish white
brown-marked eggs are laid late in April.

LINCOLN'S SPARROW

_Melospiza lincolni lincolni. Case 7, Fig. 15_

A broad band of buff across the streaked breast.

_Range._ Chiefly western United States; in the
East, nests from northern New York and northern
Minnesota into Canada; winters from Mississippi to
Central America; rare east of the Alleghanies.

Washington, rare T.V., May 8-21; Sept. 30-Oct. 1.
Ossining, rare T.V., Sept. 29-Oct. 16. Cambridge,
not uncommon T.V., May 15-May 25; Sept. 14-Oct.
10. N. Ohio, tolerably common T.V., Apl. 25-May
25. Glen Ellyn, not common T.V., fall records
only, Sept. 11-Oct. 9. SE. Minn., common T.V.,
Apl. 17-; Sept. 10-Oct. 30.

We know the species only as a rare, retiring migrant, frequenting
hedgerows, and undergrowth. I have never heard its song while migrating.

SWAMP SPARROW

_Melospiza georgiana. Case 4, Fig. 44; Case 5, Fig. 22_

Note the bright chestnut cap, grayish, unstreaked
breast, and reddish brown rump of the summer
plumage; in winter, the crown is darker and
streaked with black. L. 5-1/4.

_Range._ Nests from New Jersey and Illinois to
Canada; winters from Nebraska and New Jersey to
the Gulf.

Washington, very common T.V., Apl. 12-May 19;
Sept, 28-Oct. 29; a few winter. Ossining,
tolerably common S.R., Apl. 4-Dec. 2; a few
winter. Cambridge, abundant S.R., Apl. 12-Nov. 10;
a few winter. N. Ohio, common T.V., Mch. 23-May
20. Glen Ellyn, tolerably common T.V., Apl. 2-May
26; Sept. 2-Oct. 24; possibly S.R. SE. Minn.,
common S.R., Apl. 5-Nov. 18.

The Swamp Sparrow is a Sparrow of the marshes whose _tweet-t