. Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migration ... Birds. PINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 309 usual call-note is a sharp eheep, not unlike that of the White-throated Sparrow, and quite different from the rather nasal chimp of the Song Sparrow. Their song is a simple, sweet, but somewhat monotonous twee(-tweet-(weet, repeated many times, all on one note, and sometimes running into a trill. 585. Passerella iliaca (Merr.). Fox Spakbow. Ad.—Upper parts rufous-brown, the feathers margined by cinnam
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migration ... Birds. PINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 309 usual call-note is a sharp eheep, not unlike that of the White-throated Sparrow, and quite different from the rather nasal chimp of the Song Sparrow. Their song is a simple, sweet, but somewhat monotonous twee(-tweet-(weet, repeated many times, all on one note, and sometimes running into a trill. 585. Passerella iliaca (Merr.). Fox Spakbow. Ad.—Upper parts rufous-brown, the feathers margined by cinnamon-brown; upper tail-ooverts and tail bright rufous; wings mar- gined with rufous; under parts Jiemi- ly streaked and spotted with rufous- brown and blackish; middle of the belly white; lower mandible yellow- ish. L., Y-26; W., 3-39; T., 2-65; B., •50. Mange.—Breeds from the Magda- len Islands and Manitoba to Alaska; winters from Virginia southward. Washington, very abundant T. V., Feb. to Apl. 5; Oct. 25 to Nov.; a few Fig. 87.—Fox Sparrow. (Natural size.) winter. Sing Sing, tolerably common T. v., Mch. 4 to Apl. 20; Oct. 14 to Nov. 28. Cambridge, abundant T. V., Mch. 15 to Apl. 20; Oct. 20 to Nov. 15. Nest^ of coarse grasses, lined with finer grasses, hair, mosa, and feathers, on the ground, and in low trees and bushes. Egg%, four to five, pale bluish, evenly speckled or heavily blotched with umber or vinaceous-brown, '80 x '63 (see Bendire, Auk, vi, 1889, p. 108). In the early spring the Pox Sparrow is seen mostly about damp thickets and roadside shrubbery; later it takes more to woodsides, foraging on leaf-strewn slopes where there is little or no undergrowth, often associated with small parties of Juncos. On its return in the autumn it again becomes a common denizen of hedgerows and thickets, and also invades the weedy grainflelds, rarely, however, straying far from some thickety cover. Sometimes large numbers congregate among withered growths of tall weeds, whenGe
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