. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . -gray, unmarked; back separated from head by grayof nape, strongly streaked by black, pale rufous, and ochraceous; wings and tailfuscous, edged with whitish; bill black; feet pale. Immature birds have billyellow below : the chestnut of crown mixed with black; and a buffv suffusionof breast and sides in varying proportions. Very young birds are streaked be-low. Length ( ; wing ((): tail ,y (); ().. WHO GETS TlIK ClllIlIiXG
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . -gray, unmarked; back separated from head by grayof nape, strongly streaked by black, pale rufous, and ochraceous; wings and tailfuscous, edged with whitish; bill black; feet pale. Immature birds have billyellow below : the chestnut of crown mixed with black; and a buffv suffusionof breast and sides in varying proportions. Very young birds are streaked be-low. Length ( ; wing ((): tail ,y (); ().. WHO GETS TlIK ClllIlIiXG .SP.\KK(IW l-.\MILV. Recognition Marks.—Warbler size ; blackish forehead and chestnut crown ;song a monotonous trill. Nest, a compact structure of fine twigs, grasses, and (most commonly andoften I rootlets, heavily lined with horse-hair; placed anywhere inbushes or small trees, but preferably on horizontal branches of apple-trees orevergreens. Bggs. 4 or 5, greenish blue, speckled freely or narrowly about thelarger end with reddish brown or black. Av. size, .71 x .51 (18. x 13.). 72 THE CHIPPING SPARROW. General Range.—Eastern North America, west to the Rocky Mountains,north to Great Slave Lake, and south to eastern Mexico, breeding from the GulfStates northward. Range in Ohio.—A common, and universally distributed summer resident in winter in southern portion. WHO has not seen tiiis little pensioner of doorstep and lawn? Wilsonwas quite correct in naming him socialis, sociable; the more so if the word benot cons
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