Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 07:53:43 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Patty Craig Subject: Dark White-throated Sparrow MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While helping with the Patuxent Waterbird Survey on 2-12-00 Bob Boxwell and I saw an apparently melanistic White-throated Sparrow near one of our points. The eyebrow was a golden color and the lighter throat was visible, but with the exception of very obscure streaking the rest of the plumage was basically black or charcoal gray. A very interesting looking individual. Good Birding, Patty Craig Dameron, MD pattycraig@mail.ameritel.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================