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. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . I. THE DICKCISSEL.{Affrr liiolofjical Snrveit.) of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; but twoor three decades ago it abandoned the Eastern States and nowrarely breeds east of the Allegheny Mountains. In autunmit migrates to Central and South America. In some localitiesit is known as the little meadow-lark, because its coloring islike that of the meadow-lark, even to the black locket on the ^ The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture, Bull. No. 15, U. S. Bio-logical Survey. THE FINCH
. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . I. THE DICKCISSEL.{Affrr liiolofjical Snrveit.) of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; but twoor three decades ago it abandoned the Eastern States and nowrarely breeds east of the Allegheny Mountains. In autunmit migrates to Central and South America. In some localitiesit is known as the little meadow-lark, because its coloring islike that of the meadow-lark, even to the black locket on the ^ The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture, Bull. No. 15, U. S. Bio-logical Survey. THE FINCHES AND SPARROWS. 141 breast of brilliant yellow. Most sparrows are gregarious, butdickcissels move about in pairs or little family groups. Inmany places they are so numerous that a score of individualsmay be found in every hay-field and meadow; and the speciesis as characteristic of such localities as the robin is of the NewEngland lawn, or the mocking-bird of the Florida song consists of a series of monotonous insect notes, re-peated incessantly from early morn to late afternoon, rese
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