. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. SONG SPARROW 157 band across the narrow streaking of the breast. When one has become familiar with the species, other diiferences are apparent; the bird is smaller than the Song Sparrow, trim- mer, more elegant. Its tail is shorter, and the color of its back and the side of its head is olive-gray rather than red- dish-brown. It is more apt than the other sparrows to ra
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. SONG SPARROW 157 band across the narrow streaking of the breast. When one has become familiar with the species, other diiferences are apparent; the bird is smaller than the Song Sparrow, trim- mer, more elegant. Its tail is shorter, and the color of its back and the side of its head is olive-gray rather than red- dish-brown. It is more apt than the other sparrows to raise its crest-feathers slightly when alarmed. (See "Bird-Lore," vol. ii. p. 109.) Song Sparrow. Melospisa cinerea melodia Ad. — Upper parts brown, the back streaked with darker brown; top of head reddish-brown, with streaks of gray through centre and over each eye; breast and sides streaked with reddish- brown, the streaks generally coalescing to form a large spot in the centre of the breast; two other large spots at the sides of the throat; tail rather long. Nest, placed either in grass or sedge on the ground, or in a low bush. Eggs, heavily spotted with reddish-brown. The Song Sparrow is a common permanent resident in the lower Hudson Valley and in southern Connecticut and Rhode Island; it winters not uncommonly in the edges of marshes or in piles of brush along the Massachusetts coast. In the rest of New York and New England the Song Sparrow is an abundant summer resident, arriving early in March and re- maining through October. Where the bird winters, its song may . , , -I 1 1 • Fig- 39- Song Sparrow be heard on mild days, even in the winter months, and especially during the latter part of February, but in general its song is one of the signs of spring. From about the middle of July, through the late summer. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearanc
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