This genus is well represented thruout Mexico and Central America but the plainly colored TEXAS SPARROW is the only species which crosses the Rio Grande.
They are nonmigratory, living inconspicuously in arid thickets where human eyes seldom glimpse them.
NEST: built of grass, weed stalks and leaves; lined with fine grass and hair; located in low bushes of thickets.
EGGS: 4; plain dull white.
A small triangle in southern Texas; about two hundred miles along coast and three hundred miles on Rio Grande River.
A tree up to 30 feet high, distributed on banks of mountain streams and sandy mesas, from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, thru southern New Mexico and Arizona to southern California.