. American ornithology for the home and school . n Eng-lish Sparrow this would not seem strange, but Sir Tyrannus is not gen-erally friendly even with a freight train. The hottest of all nestingplaces that I have found was in the tool box of a mowing machine. Apair of Wrens built their nest in this cast iron house and raised a largefamily in it. I did not take the temperature of the box, but a thermom-eter placed in the dry sand in our yard went up to one hundred and fortysix degrees, and any piece of iron laid in the sun soon got too hot tohold in ones hand. The tool box was not over four inc
. American ornithology for the home and school . n Eng-lish Sparrow this would not seem strange, but Sir Tyrannus is not gen-erally friendly even with a freight train. The hottest of all nestingplaces that I have found was in the tool box of a mowing machine. Apair of Wrens built their nest in this cast iron house and raised a largefamily in it. I did not take the temperature of the box, but a thermom-eter placed in the dry sand in our yard went up to one hundred and fortysix degrees, and any piece of iron laid in the sun soon got too hot tohold in ones hand. The tool box was not over four inches deep andhad an iron cover. The Wrens came and went through a hole in theend of the box. The most perfect bit of bird skill was the nest of aBaltimore Oriole, made almost entirely of black and white horse colony of Crow-blackbirds got a bad habit of using binder twinepicked out of straw stacks. It made very strong nests, but they didnot have the skill of the Oriole, so the nests were rather fuzzy looking affairs. a. K. Boyles, no AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. Identification Color Chart No. 3. Chestrvvit-colored Spa-rrows. No. 559, Tree Sparrow, {Spiiella monticola). Eastern North America. Breeds from the Arctic Oceansouth through Canada and in winter migrates in largenumbers through eastern U. S. to about the middle por-tion. 6 in. in length. Subspecies;—559a. West TreeSparrow, (S. m. ochracea). Western North in Alaska and the Arctic Regions. South in win-ter to New Mexico and Arizona. Paler than the easternform. No. 560, Chipping Sparrow, {Spiyei/d socia/is).North America east of the Rocky Mts. and south of theGreat Slave Lake in Canada. Breeds from the Gulfstates northwards. Ver\ common. Length, ;—560a. West. Chipping Sparrow, (S. ). Western U. S. from the Rocky Mts. to thePacific. No. 563, Field Sparrow, (Spinel/a pusilhi). Tlie U. S. and southern Canada east of the Plains andsouth to the Gulf States. Very common. Len
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