_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-tweet-tweet_
many times repeated, is associated with the music of Marsh Wrens. It
nests on the ground in May, laying eggs not unlike those of the Song
Sparrow.