. Birds of village and field [microform] : a bird book for beginners. Birds; Oiseaux. J ' II '1; ! 3) k Hi 184 FIELD SPARROW the inemory ; and in a country where it is seldom lieard, it is a sono- tliat I personally would walk inilcs to hear. While the ./ho song- is the con- ventional one of the Field Sparrow, it is said to have many variations. I„ a field in Maryland I have heard the usual song on one side and a totally different one on the other, one curiously like a tune, with three definite sets of four notes each, or rather the same note repeated four times, the three sets given in descen
. Birds of village and field [microform] : a bird book for beginners. Birds; Oiseaux. J ' II '1; ! 3) k Hi 184 FIELD SPARROW the inemory ; and in a country where it is seldom lieard, it is a sono- tliat I personally would walk inilcs to hear. While the ./ho song- is the con- ventional one of the Field Sparrow, it is said to have many variations. I„ a field in Maryland I have heard the usual song on one side and a totally different one on the other, one curiously like a tune, with three definite sets of four notes each, or rather the same note repeated four times, the three sets given in descend- ing- scale, and the tune completed by a fourth set of varied notes thrown up higher on the scale. Living- in fields, the Field Sparrow does good by destroying tlie seeds of amaranth, chick weed,, pigweed, knotgrass, and fox- tail, besides eating a large number of grass- .,, , ^ M'Pers, injurious cat- erpillars, leaf-eating beetles, and the saw-fly that produces the currant worm. Its nest is of coarse grasses and rootlets put near the ground. The. Fio. 90. Amaranth, eaten by Field Sparrow. li ?. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863. Toronto : McClelland & Goodchild
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