. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . especially the pale brownish or flesh-colored bill. Theseare all good marks, and if now you can hear him sing hisidentity will be settled without question. His song is oneof the most pleasing I know. It is very simple but veryexpressive, a sweet, plaintive cher-wee, cher-wee, cher-wee,cheeo dee-e-e-e-e, which goes straight to ones heart. It issung most freely after sunset, and is in keeping with thepeacefulness of the evening hour. At this time, too, thebird seems inspired to more than usual effort, and its or-dinary song is often so elab
. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . especially the pale brownish or flesh-colored bill. Theseare all good marks, and if now you can hear him sing hisidentity will be settled without question. His song is oneof the most pleasing I know. It is very simple but veryexpressive, a sweet, plaintive cher-wee, cher-wee, cher-wee,cheeo dee-e-e-e-e, which goes straight to ones heart. It issung most freely after sunset, and is in keeping with thepeacefulness of the evening hour. At this time, too, thebird seems inspired to more than usual effort, and its or-dinary song is often so elaborated and prolonged as to bescarcely recognizable. The song season ends in the latter part of August,and, although the birds are with us until November, Ihave rarely heard them sing in the fall. The Vesper Sparrow, Grass Finch, or Bay-wingedBunting—for he bears all three names—prefers, moreopen grounds than the Field Sparrow selects. There issomething free and spirited about this bird and its songwhich demands space for its proper development. No. Plate LIII. Page 149. PUKPLE FINCH. Length, 6-20 inches. Adult male, rose-pink ; back brownish ; lower belly-white ; no white in wings. Adult female and young, upper parts streakedbrownish and grayish ; under parts white, streaked with brownish ;bill rounded on top ; a tuft of bristly feathers over the nostrils. VESPER SPARROW. 141 swamp or thicket will do for him, but in great broad fieldshe is at home. If a roadway leads through his haunts, Vesper Sparrow, you maJ often see him on tlie groundPooccetes gramineus. ahead of you, and when he flies the Plate xliv. white feathers shown on either side ofhis tail will give you an excellent clew to his he will fly on ahead a little way and alightagain in the road, or a longer flight may lead him to aneighboring fence or the upper branches of a more dis-tant tree. It is from positions of this kind that he mostoften sings. With him song is evidently a matter of im-portan
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