_Passerherbulus lecontei. Case 7, Fig. 18_
The underparts are but slightly streaked, the
crown is striped, and the nape reddish brown. L.
5.
_Range._ Nesting in the interior of North America
from our border States, northward and east to
Minnesota; migrates southward and south-eastward,
and winters locally from South Carolina to Florida
and Texas.
Glen Ellyn, not common T.V., May 4-?; Sept. 8-Oct.
6. SE. Minn, uncommon S.R., May 1-Oct. 17.
This is the third and rarest member of the trio of small, retiring
Sparrows of which the Grasshopper Sparrow is the commonest. It is found
east of the Mississippi only in the winter when it may be associated
with the Grasshopper and Henslow's Sparrows.