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     for it, too, has braved the winter’s frosts and 
     
     sported with the fleet-winged Buntings. In sum— 
     
     mer it nests in the same sunny borders as the 
     
     Sonicr Sparrow, hiding,r more securely its very similar 
     
     nest, with lighter colored eggs. The Savanna 
     
     Sparrow is the bird of the grass fields where its 
     
     slender—built nest lies hidden in every clump of 
     
     tangled herbage. From the grass lields, in warm 
     
     June days, the slender whispers of these tiny 
     
     songsters come as a gentle undertone to the gen— 
     
     eral peal of summer’s music. The loud burst of 
     
     the Grass Finch, the Clear, ringingr whistle of the 
     
     White-throat Sparrow, and the rapid chipping of 
     
     the Chip Sparrow burst on the car at rapid in— 
     
     tervals; but the gentle notes of the Savannas 
     
     never cease, mingling with the rustling of the 
     
     grasses and the murmurs of the shrubbery that 
     
     burden the passing breeze. The birds will some- 
     
     times mount a fence for a song, but on the least' 
     
     alarm descend and run through the grass, like 
     
     mice. Savannas leave us early in September. 
     
    

    
     The Tree Sparrow (Sprawl/a ”um/[why is a 
     
     handsome Sparrow with a chestnut crown and an 
     
     ashy—white breast. Like the Fox Sparrow and 
     
    
   
   
    
     the White—crowned Sparrow, it is but a wayward