. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . ^ and its breath at the sametime, but it is soon ready to try again. Perseverance is itsuntailing virtue, for it sings, intermittently, all through thelong, hot summer day. Its alarm note is a sharp cltip. It feeds more on the caterpillars that infest trees andbushes than do most Sparrows, and takes many such larva? toits young. It is fond of grasshoppers,and takes some inse
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . ^ and its breath at the sametime, but it is soon ready to try again. Perseverance is itsuntailing virtue, for it sings, intermittently, all through thelong, hot summer day. Its alarm note is a sharp cltip. It feeds more on the caterpillars that infest trees andbushes than do most Sparrows, and takes many such larva? toits young. It is fond of grasshoppers,and takes some insects from the eats the birch plant louse with few flies, mosquitoes, or gnats aretaken; cankerworms and other measur-ing w^orms, the larvae of several species of pig. 130 —indigo Bunt-butterflies, and the imagoes of nocturnal mg, female,and Tineid moths, with small beetles of difterent species, con-stitute a portion of its insect food. The larger part of its foodconsists of seeds, many of which are those of weeds. Duringits short stay with us it is one of the few useful species seenmuch about the garden, and is of some service in the BIRDS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 299 Song Sparrow. Ground Sparrow. Ground Bird. 3Iclosj-)iza mclodia melodia. Length. —About six and one-lialf inches. Adult Male. — Above, brown; the back streaked with a darker shade; top ofhead reddish-brown, mottled with blackish streaks; a streak of light graythrough center of crown and one over the eye; a dark line through eyeand two on the lower jaw; breast and sides whitish, spotted with darkbrown, the spots usually massed in the center of breast, where they form alarge spot or cluster; tail rounded and rather long. Nest. — Usually on groimd or in bush, rarely in tree. Eggs. — Whitish, endlessly varied with browns. Season.—Resident, but not common in winter.
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