. Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners . White-throated Sparrow. Fig. Sparrow. east. Sometimes one of the distinguished lookingbirds will be discovered in a flock of White-throats. You can tell him from his cousins at aglance, because he has not the white j^atch underthe chin, being uniformly gray from his bill tohis tail. His crown serves still further to distin-guish him. It is as striking as a soldiers , he attracts attention by his generalbearing, which is unmistakably that of an aristo-crat. His song has much greater variety of note BROWN TH
. Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners . White-throated Sparrow. Fig. Sparrow. east. Sometimes one of the distinguished lookingbirds will be discovered in a flock of White-throats. You can tell him from his cousins at aglance, because he has not the white j^atch underthe chin, being uniformly gray from his bill tohis tail. His crown serves still further to distin-guish him. It is as striking as a soldiers , he attracts attention by his generalbearing, which is unmistakably that of an aristo-crat. His song has much greater variety of note BROWN THRASHER 177 than the White-throats, though in quality theclear whistle of the White-throat can hardly besurpassed. Mr. Burroughs is enthusiastic over the White-crown, and says : He is the rarest and mostbeautiful of the Sparrow kind. He is crowned assome hero or victor in the games. > > 01% v^ Fig. 94. Brown Thrasher: Harporhynclms rufus. Upper parts reddish brown; under jjarts -white, heavily streakedwith black. Length, about 1\\ inches. Geographi
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