. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations; . he notes also differ but little from those of the SwampSparrow, in whose haunts, however, the Snow-birds rarelyoccur. As the most common and regular of our winter visitors, andalmost the only ones who ever seek the neighborhood of man,the Snow-birds are certainly entitled to our affection; andtheir liveliness cannot but afford pleasure, when broughtdirectly in contrast at our very doors, so to speak, with thecold and storms of midwinter
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations; . he notes also differ but little from those of the SwampSparrow, in whose haunts, however, the Snow-birds rarelyoccur. As the most common and regular of our winter visitors, andalmost the only ones who ever seek the neighborhood of man,the Snow-birds are certainly entitled to our affection; andtheir liveliness cannot but afford pleasure, when broughtdirectly in contrast at our very doors, so to speak, with thecold and storms of midwinter. Note. — According to Mr. William Brewster (Bulletin,Nuttall Ornithological Club, April, 1876, Vol. I, No. 1) afemale Oregon Snow-bird (Junco oregonus) was shot91 See § 1, I, D. 234 LAND-BIRDS. in Watertown, Mass., March 25tli, 1874. * ^, black; 5 ,browner. Lower breast, etc., white. Back and wing-edgings, dull reddish brown ; sides, paler. XVIII. PIPILO. A. ERYTHROPHTHALMUS. Towhee Bunting. Ground RoUn: 3farsh Rohi?i: SwampRobiiu^^ A common summer resident in Massachusetts,but not common to the northward of this Fig-. 10. Towhee Bunting, (i) a. 8-8J inches long. (Iris, in the summer season red, ex-cept in the young ; otherwise, white or nearly so. J) (J , black ;lower breast, belly, and nearly the whole of the outermost tail-feathers, white. A conspicuous patch on the side of the breast,chestnut (with paler traces of it behind). Wings and tailwith some white, besides that mentioned. ^ , oi ^ deep, warmbrown where the male is black. h. The nest, which near Boston is generally finished in thelast week of May, is to be found in the scrub and low wet * On re-examination this bird provesto be a typical example of Junco hye-malis shufeldti Coale, a form veryclosely related to the true oregonus,from which it was separated some timeafter the original determination of theWatertown specimen was made. —W. B. ^- This name has been applied indis-criminately
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