. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . fous, crown often, especiallyin winter, with ashy median stripe, or rufousobscured by grayisli edges to feathers ; middle ofback huffy, streaktnl with l)lack and rusty ; wings ^-- ^•*- witli two conspicuous white bars ; under grayisli, chest irtth .s»ja//duski/spot. Young : streaked beneath. Male: length (skins) .).()l-().00,wing , tail ), bill ... Feimde : length (skins) , wing tail 2.(;, bill .3.)-
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . fous, crown often, especiallyin winter, with ashy median stripe, or rufousobscured by grayisli edges to feathers ; middle ofback huffy, streaktnl with l)lack and rusty ; wings ^-- ^•*- witli two conspicuous white bars ; under grayisli, chest irtth .s»ja//duski/spot. Young : streaked beneath. Male: length (skins) .).()l-().00,wing , tail ), bill ... Feimde : length (skins) , wing tail 2.(;, bill .3.)). Distribution. — Breeds from near the arctic coast through ;migrates as far east as the eastern border of the Plains, and south to NewMexico. Texas, an<l .\ri/.on:i. Nest. — On ground or in low l)ushes, composed largely of dried grassand fe;itliers. : 3 to .). pale greeuisli blue, varying to brownish,speckled with reddislj brown. Food. — Mainly seeds, largely weed seed. In its Ahiskan liotne Mr. Nelson says Ihc western tree sjKirrow isthe most numerous of the sparrows that fn^iueiit the 1)ushes. espe-. 342 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. cially along the coast of Bering Sea, where, on entering a tliicket,the protesting tsip of the gentle bird may be heard on all sides. Coming south in fall, ochracea reaches Colorado in October andspends the winter, Prof. Cooke says, on the Plains and the lowerpart of the mountains, being common up to 7000 feet and occa-sionally seen as high as 9000 feet. 560a. Spizella socialis arizonse Coues. Western 171 summer. — Bill black ; top o£ head rufous, sometimes with in-dication of ashy median line and dark streak-ing- ; forehead blackish, cut by median whiteline; superciliary stripe white or grayish,bordered below by narrow black eye stripe;back brownish or pale buffy, streaked withblack: rump and upper tail coverts gray;sides of head dull gray ; under parts white orashy. Adtilts in winter : similar, b
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