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507. Passerculus sandwichensis savanna (con.)

508 Passerculus sandwichensis savanna 
sent to C.B.Linton
Los Angeles Calif
11/10/07

Indigo Bunting

Nelson Sparrow

Long-billed Marsh Wren

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buffy, tarsus buffy. Length 5 1/8 wing 2 3/4 tail 2 [[male symbol]] im. stomach contents insects.

508. Passerculus sandwichensis savanna. A.
Wetmore. Fullmer's Pasture, North Freedom, Wis. iris brown. Maxilla brown, mandible buffy, tarsus flesh color. Length 5 1/4 wing 2 15/16 tail 2 [[female symbol]] im. Stomach contents insects.

This morning after breakfast Mr. Stout and I went over in Petzke's Marsh. Along the way we saw quite a few Indigo Buntings. They kept in the thick weeds and flew out when I dropped a stone in them to light for a minute on the fence or drop back in the weeds.

In the Marsh we saw quite a few Nelson Sparrows. I secured four. They kept entirely in the long grass. Sometimes at the end of a flight they lit in the top of a weed and sat quietly watching. They gave a faint note like [[underlined]] tseet [/underlined]] I did not see a single one until it was flushed. Frequently they came up almost under my feet. Sometimes I would scare up two or three but they would all disappear again leaving the grass apparently deserted. Sometimes they flew into the taller grass and willows where it was almost impossible to flush them. They looked almost exactly like a Long-billed Marsh Wren on the wing and would easily be overlooked.

The Long-billed Marsh Wrens kept in the tall sawgrass. In walking through they would come  up to the top and scold at me and then fly ten or twenty feet and drop back. Found two or three nests that they had been building. There were none of them finished. One wren scolded me