. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. (1)1 ill ii 298 SINGING BIRDS. DICKCISSKL. BLACK-TIIKOATKD HUNTING. SPIZA Thar. Male: above, ,t;ray Ijiowii, inidcUc of back streaked with bkick ; iiai)c and side ot head ash , ciown olive streaked with dusky ; line over the eyes yellow ; chin white ; large patch of black on throat; two wing-bars chestnut; edge of wing yellow; below, wiiite tinged with yel- low ; sides shaded with brown. Female: similar, somewhat smaller; throat without patch, but with black spot
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. (1)1 ill ii 298 SINGING BIRDS. DICKCISSKL. BLACK-TIIKOATKD HUNTING. SPIZA Thar. Male: above, ,t;ray Ijiowii, inidcUc of back streaked with bkick ; iiai)c and side ot head ash , ciown olive streaked with dusky ; line over the eyes yellow ; chin white ; large patch of black on throat; two wing-bars chestnut; edge of wing yellow; below, wiiite tinged with yel- low ; sides shaded with brown. Female: similar, somewhat smaller; throat without patch, but with black spots; less tinge of yellow on lower parts. Length 6 to 7 inches. Ais/. On the i)rairie or in a field or pasture or open scrubbv woods ; placed ujjon the ground or in a bush or low tree, sometimes 10 to 20 feet from ground , made of grass, wecd-stalks, leaves, and roots, lined with hue grass or hair. ii>o. 4-5 ; pale greenish blue, unspotted ; X These birds arrive in Pennsylvania and New England from the South about the middle of May, and abotmd in the vicinity of rhiladelphia, where they seem to prefer level fields, building their nests on the groimd, ehiefly of fine withered grass. 'J'hey also inhabit the ])rairies of Missouri, the State of New York, the remote northern regions of Hudson's Uay, and are not un- common in this i^art of New England, dwelling here, however, almost exclusively in the high, fresh meadows near the salt- marshes. Their song, simi)le and monotonous, according to ^Vilson consists only of five notes, or rather two, the first being rejicated twice and slowly, the second thrice and rapidly, resembling /s//s/^ tship, tshc tshc tshc. ^^'ith us their call is 'tic 'til — tshc tshc tshc tsh'ip, and tship tship, tshc tshc tshc tsliip. From their arrival nearly to their departure, or for two or three months, this note is perpetually heard from every level fielil of grain or grass ; both sexes also often mount to the top of some low tree of the orchar
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