. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . metimes when started from the nest, thefemale simulates lameness with remarkable dexterity, so as 56-2 GRAXIVOROUS BIRDS. very readily to draw off the attention of her enemies or in-truders. The young are easily raised from the nest, andbecome very tame, clean, and domestic, but readily quarrelwith each other. The length of the Grass Finch is about 6 or G\ inches, and 10£ inalar dimensions. Primaries edged with whitish. Tail partly wedged,the outer feather almost wholly white, except towards the base of theinne
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . metimes when started from the nest, thefemale simulates lameness with remarkable dexterity, so as 56-2 GRAXIVOROUS BIRDS. very readily to draw off the attention of her enemies or in-truders. The young are easily raised from the nest, andbecome very tame, clean, and domestic, but readily quarrelwith each other. The length of the Grass Finch is about 6 or G\ inches, and 10£ inalar dimensions. Primaries edged with whitish. Tail partly wedged,the outer feather almost wholly white, except towards the base of theinner web; the next feather white on the outer vane, and (sometimes)also with a spot of the same color. Breast and flanks white, tingedwith very pale brown, and spotted with dark pointed spots along theshafts of the feathers ; belly and vent white ; 2d and 3d primarieslongest. Bill above dusky, notched near the tip ; beneath paler. Legsand feet pale flesh-color. Tarsus % of an inch. — Female hardly dis-tinguishable from the male; the spots of the breast somewhat fewerand ;~- *■-„ COMMON SONG-SPARROW. (Fringilla fasciata, Gmel. F. melodia, Wilson, ii. p. 125. pi. 4. Audubon, pi. 25. Orn. Biog. i. p. 126. Phil. Museum,No. 6573.) Spec. Charact. — Crown chesnut, divided by a greyish line ; breastand flanks spotted with blackish-brown; tail cuneiform, unspotted; COMMON SONG-SPARROW. 563 1st primary shortest: body above varied with blackish, chesnut, andolive-grey. This familiar and almost domestic bird is one of themost common and numerous Sparrows in the UnitedStates ; it is, also, with the Blue-bird, which it seems toaccompany, one of the two earliest, sweetest, and mostenduring warblers. Though many pass on to the South-ern States at the commencement of winter, yet a fewseem to brave the colds of New England, as long as thesnowy waste does not conceal their last resource of nutri-ment. When the inundating storm at length arrives,they no longer, in th
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