. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . pe behind eye, and patchon sides of chest rufous, crown often, especiallyin winter, with ashy median stripe, or rufousobscured by grayish edges to feathers ; middle ofback buffy, streaked with black and rusty ; wings ^S- 430. with two conspicuous white bars ; under parts grayish, chest with smalldusky spot. Young : streaked beneath. Male: length (skins) ,wing , tail , bill . Female : length (skins) , wing , ta
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . pe behind eye, and patchon sides of chest rufous, crown often, especiallyin winter, with ashy median stripe, or rufousobscured by grayish edges to feathers ; middle ofback buffy, streaked with black and rusty ; wings ^S- 430. with two conspicuous white bars ; under parts grayish, chest with smalldusky spot. Young : streaked beneath. Male: length (skins) ,wing , tail , bill . Female : length (skins) , wing , tail , bill . Distribution. — Breeds from near the arctic coast through Alaska;migrates as far east as the eastern border of the Plains, and south to NewMexico, Texas, and Arizona. Nest. — On ground or in low bushes, composed largely of dried grassand feathers. Eggs: 3 to 5, pale greenish blue, varying to brownish,speckled with reddish brown. Food. — Mainly seeds, largely weed seed. In its Alaskan home Mr. Nelson says the western tree sparrow isthe most numerous of the sparrows that frequent the bushes, espe-. 342 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. cially along the coast of Bering Sea, where, on entering a thicket,the protesting tsip of the gentle bird may be heard on all sides. Coming south in fall, ochracea reaches Colorado in October andspends the winter, Prof. Cooke says, on the Plains and the lowerpart of the mountains, being common up to 7000 feet and occa-sionally seen as high as 9000 feet. 560a. Spizella socialis arizonse Coues. Western in summer. — Bill black ; top of head rufous, sometimes with in-dication of ashy median line and dark streak-ing ; forehead blackish, cut by median whiteline; superciliary stripe white or grayish,bordered below by narrow black eye stripe;back brownish or pale bufpy, streaked withblack: rump and upper tail coverts gray;sides of head dull gray ; under parts white orashy. Adults in winter : similar, but col
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