. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 40 BIRDS OF AMERICA TREE SPARROW Spizella monticola monticola ( Cniiclin) A. O. U. Xumher 559 See Color Plate 80 Other Names.â Snow Chippy; Winter Chip-bird; Winter Chippy; Tree Bunting; Canada Sparrow; Arctic Chipper; Winter Sparrow. General Description.â Length, zVa inches. Upper parts, gray, rusty, and black, streaked; under parts, gray. Bill, small; wings, rather long and rather pointed; tail, shorter than wing, forked or double rounded, the feathers narrow and blunt. Color.â.'Vdult : Crown, streak behind eye. and patch on sides of chest, browni
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 40 BIRDS OF AMERICA TREE SPARROW Spizella monticola monticola ( Cniiclin) A. O. U. Xumher 559 See Color Plate 80 Other Names.â Snow Chippy; Winter Chip-bird; Winter Chippy; Tree Bunting; Canada Sparrow; Arctic Chipper; Winter Sparrow. General Description.â Length, zVa inches. Upper parts, gray, rusty, and black, streaked; under parts, gray. Bill, small; wings, rather long and rather pointed; tail, shorter than wing, forked or double rounded, the feathers narrow and blunt. Color.â.'Vdult : Crown, streak behind eye. and patch on sides of chest, brownish ; hindneck, sides of head and neck (except as described), and broad stripe over eye, light gray; chin and throat, similar but paler; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts, dull white, the first with a dusky center spot or blotch at upper edge, next to the pale grayish of the chest; sides and flanks, pale wood brownish or brownish huffy; back and shoulders, pale grayish huffy broadly streaked with black and, more narrowly, with rusty; rump and upper tail-coverts, plain hair-brown; tail, grayish dusky, the feathers conspicuously edged with pale gray or buffy gray; greater wing-coverts, broadly edged with rufous, dusky centrally; middle and greater wing-covcrts, dusky, tipped zvith white, forming tzvo distinct bands; iris, brown. Young : Crown, dull brown streaked with blackish; rump, pale bufify grayish indistinctly streaked or mottled with dusky; under parts, whitish tinged with buffy on chest; the sides of throat, chest, breast, and front portion of sides, streaked with dusky; other- wise essentially like adults. Nest and Eggs.â Nest: Located in low trees, bushes or on ground; constructed principally of dried grass, strips of bark, moss, weed stems, and warmly lined with feathers. Eggs : 3 to 5, pale greenish blue, specked minutely and regularly over entire surface with rufous brown. Distribution.â Eastern North America, breeding in Newfoundland, Labrador, and region
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