. Birds of village and field [microform] : a bird book for beginners. Birds; Oiseaux. :. .£;^n,WuiwU»&ui^»> ..W«««*«i6i»i ,^-,«*.>«<««««'*«-«iga ack; lURI). iiiily pur- scent IIIRO. i^^ cmrpixa spAniio]v Chipping Sparrow: Sphrlh, sncMis. 113. Fk;. 55. Cliippiiig- Sparrow. Top of brown; uu,W parts plain ^ray; Lack brown streaked with black; bill black. Len,j>/,, about 5| ni(;hes. * Gko,>ha,.„k. l).,„ North ; tron. the (,„lf states t<. Newfoundland and Great Slave Lake • winters iu the Gulf states and Mexico. Mr. Torrey say
. Birds of village and field [microform] : a bird book for beginners. Birds; Oiseaux. :. .£;^n,WuiwU»&ui^»> ..W«««*«i6i»i ,^-,«*.>«<««««'*«-«iga ack; lURI). iiiily pur- scent IIIRO. i^^ cmrpixa spAniio]v Chipping Sparrow: Sphrlh, sncMis. 113. Fk;. 55. Cliippiiig- Sparrow. Top of brown; uu,W parts plain ^ray; Lack brown streaked with black; bill black. Len,j>/,, about 5| ni(;hes. * Gko,>ha,.„k. l).,„ North ; tron. the (,„lf states t<. Newfoundland and Great Slave Lake • winters iu the Gulf states and Mexico. Mr. Torrey says if lie eoiild liavo Jiis way this little bird shouW be known as the 'door-step Sparrow,' and certainly no name eould be more ai)proi)ri- ate. Many delio-litfnl instances are on record concerning j)ar- ticularly tame Chippino-^ Spar- rows, bnt none is more interest- ing than that given by Mr. liobert B. Lawrence, a nepliew of the distinguished ornithologist, George N Lawrence, wlio tells l,ow a ' Chippy' actpiaint- ance of his father\s became a confidential friend. Mr. Lawrence says i,i a note in ' Forest and Stream :' " For years at our i)lace in Flushing, L. L, my father has fed some half dozen of tiu-re Chii)ping Si)arrows, and the young birds have taken bread or seed from his hand when it was held near the ground, but the old birds would never allow any such familiarity. One of the adult birds, however, seemed more inclined to ao so than his companions, and at last, in the sununer of 1879, nmstered courage enough to fol- low the example of the young birds, and, finding f :i fir. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863. Toronto : McClelland & Goodchild
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