. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . and sides of the neck ashy gray; forehead tingedwith yellow ; a yellow line over theeye and one on the side of thethroat; a black patch on the throat;chin white; breast yellow, spread-ing down on to the white belly;back streaked with black and palegrayish brown ; rump brownishash; lesser wing-coverts rufous;wings and tail fuscous. Ad. 9 .—Similar, but the head grayishbrown, streaked with blackish, and yig. (Natural size.)with no black patch on the throat and less yellow on the breast, which is sometimes lightly streaked withblack.
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . and sides of the neck ashy gray; forehead tingedwith yellow ; a yellow line over theeye and one on the side of thethroat; a black patch on the throat;chin white; breast yellow, spread-ing down on to the white belly;back streaked with black and palegrayish brown ; rump brownishash; lesser wing-coverts rufous;wings and tail fuscous. Ad. 9 .—Similar, but the head grayishbrown, streaked with blackish, and yig. (Natural size.)with no black patch on the throat and less yellow on the breast, which is sometimes lightly streaked withblack. Ad. in fall.—m.\xc\\ brighter, and with some rufous in the back. L.,6-00 ; W., 3-20 ; T., 2-35 ; B., -55. Range.—EaBtern United States, mostly in the Mississippi Valley; breedsfrom Texas to Minnesota; winters in Central and South America; breedseast of the Alleghanies now only rarely and locally. Washington, very rare S. K., a few seen each year; formerly very abun-dant. Cambridge, casual, found nesting at Medford, June 9, 1877, where. 316 TANAGERS. several birds were observed ; not uncommon in 1833-34 (see Bull. Nutt. , iii, 1878, pp. 45, 190). Nest^ bulky, of coarse grasses and leaves, lined with finer grasses andsometimes long hairs, on the ground or in low trees or bushes. £ggs^ fourto live, pale blue, 80 x -60. Thirty to forty years ago these birds were more or less common inthe middle Atlantic States, but they are now of rare occurrence eastof the Alleghanies. In Texas I have seen them migrating in closelymassed flocks of several hundred individuals, all silent, except for anoccasional cack. They alight on the prairie to feed ; birds in the rearare constantly arising and passing to the front; there is ceaseless mo-tion. In the summer Dickcissel makes his home in grassy fields andpastures, and from a weed stalk or bordering fence, with uplifted head,he announces his presence as though life itself depended on his vocalexertions. It is a poor song from a musi
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