. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . rely clear and true at that time. Even insummer it often drops on the second triplet to a flattednote. The alarm-note is a brisk metallic chi]) ; this noteis also used in the dusk when the birds are settling for thenight. Another note is a sst similar to the lisp of the SongSparrow and the Fox Sparrow. (See following species.) White-crowned Sparrow. Zonotrichia leucophrys Ad. — Crown black, wit
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . rely clear and true at that time. Even insummer it often drops on the second triplet to a flattednote. The alarm-note is a brisk metallic chi]) ; this noteis also used in the dusk when the birds are settling for thenight. Another note is a sst similar to the lisp of the SongSparrow and the Fox Sparrow. (See following species.) White-crowned Sparrow. Zonotrichia leucophrys Ad. — Crown black, with a broad white stripe through the centre,and a white line extending back from the eye; no yellow before theeye; sides of head and back of neck brownish-gray; back, wings,and tail brown; wing-bars white; under parts gray; no well-markedwhite throat-patch ; hill reddish-lrown. Im. — Crown reddish-brown;stripe through centre pale grayish-brown; otherwise as in adult. The White-crowned Sparrow is a migrant in May, and inlate September and October ; rare in eastern Massachusettsand in the Hudson Valley, not uncommon at times in Berk-shire County and in the White Mountains. It is fond of the. SEASIDE SPAREOW 165 same places that the White-throated Sparrow frequents, —thickets and undergrowth, the edges of roads, and weedypatches. Its song is too rarely heard; it be-gins with pure sweet notes that suggestthe Meadowlarks whistle, or a VesperSparrow singing louder than usual,and continues with notes that recallthe Black-throated Green Warbler; the whole performance is quite differ- ^^- ^^- White-crowned ^ ^ Sparrow ent from the song of the White-throat. An adult bird is distinguished from its relative theWhite-throat by the absence of yellow before the eye, bythe pure ashy throat, which lacks the square white throat-patch, and by the different aspect of the crown,—the broad-est white stripe is in the centre, and there is no broad stripeof white over the eye. The shape of the he
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