_Passerculus princeps_
With a general resemblance to the Savannah Sparrow
(Case 5. Fig. 23) but larger, L. 6-1/4, and
decidedly paler.
_Range._ Nests on Sable Island off Nova Scotia;
winters south, along the coast, regularly to New
Jersey; rarely to Georgia.
Cambridge, casual, two instances, Oct.
Few migratory birds have a more restricted breeding range than the
Ipswich Sparrow. Confined to a sandbar island during the summer where it
is never out of sight or sound of the sea, it seeks similar haunts
during the winter when it is rarely found far from the immediate
vicinity of the ocean. In general habits and nesting, it resembles the
Savannah Sparrow, of which indeed, it is doubtless an island
representative.