. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. 72 THE CHIPPING SPARROW. General Range.—Eastern North America, west to the Rocky Mountains, north to Great Slave Lake, and south to eastern Mexico, breeding from the Gulf States northward. Range in Ohio.—A common, and universally distributed summer resident. Sparingly resident in winter in southern portion. WHO has not seen this little pensioner of doorstep and lawn? Wilson was quite correct in naming him socialis, sociable; the more so if the word be not construed
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. 72 THE CHIPPING SPARROW. General Range.—Eastern North America, west to the Rocky Mountains, north to Great Slave Lake, and south to eastern Mexico, breeding from the Gulf States northward. Range in Ohio.—A common, and universally distributed summer resident. Sparingly resident in winter in southern portion. WHO has not seen this little pensioner of doorstep and lawn? Wilson was quite correct in naming him socialis, sociable; the more so if the word be not construed in its ordinary sense of gregarious, but made to witness to the bird's preference for human society. The Chipping Sparrow- hops fearlessly about our yards in search of food, or flutters up with a load of nesting material, from our very feet, not with brazen impudence like the English Sparrow, but with the quiet confidence of a trusted friend. No bird is mi ire likely than he to accept the proffered hospitality of honeysuckle vine or trellis, and instances are beyond number where the gentle "Chippy" has been coaxed to eat from the hand. Of all homely sounds the monotonous trill of the Chipping Sparrow is the tit' ist homely—and the most easily forgivable. As music- it scarcely ranks above the rattle of castanets, but the le singer pours out his full earnestly, and his ardor leads him to sustained effort throughout the sultry hours when more brilliant vocalists are sulking in the ade: and for this we come to prize this homely ditty the sound of plashing waters. It is the Chipping Sparrow too that may usu- be depended upon to >en the morning chorus at about 3 115, and that were ser- vice enough to endear him to the heart of the ornithologist. Chippy's nest is a frail af- fair at best, but often most elaborately constructed of rootlets and tine grasses and plentifully lined with horse- In manv instances the. Taken in Fairfield I o. CHIPPING SPARROWS NEST IX APPLE
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