. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . Bird, is a common winter resi-dent or migrant in most of the United States, breeding in thenorthern tier of States and in Canada. Its principal foodconsists of the seeds of weeds and grasses, although insummer a good many insects are eaten, these forming aboutone-half of its summer diet. No bird is a more welcome harbinger of spring than theSong-Sparrow. When one hears its cheery song on a brightMarch morning, he knows that the frost king is vanquishedand will soon retreat before the living a
. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . Bird, is a common winter resi-dent or migrant in most of the United States, breeding in thenorthern tier of States and in Canada. Its principal foodconsists of the seeds of weeds and grasses, although insummer a good many insects are eaten, these forming aboutone-half of its summer diet. No bird is a more welcome harbinger of spring than theSong-Sparrow. When one hears its cheery song on a brightMarch morning, he knows that the frost king is vanquishedand will soon retreat before the living armies that ushergentle spring to the front. This bird is indeed a hearty,sunny songster, Avhose quivering pipe is often tuned tothe most dreary scenes. The typical form inhabits theUnited States and Canada, while the western region hasseveral closely allied subspecies. It abounds in shrubberyeverywhere, along road-sides, fences, brooks, and winters in the Middle States and southward, some speci-mens migrating north very early in spring, into those States Till-: FIXCHKS AM) ^IWHl^oW l:;!l. THE SONG-SPARKOW.{After Biohnjieiil Siirvei/.) where llicy have iiol i) llio wiiilcr. lis iicsl is placed onthe ground or in a low bush, and two or tlircc broods arereared each season. It seeks its food on the ground, gen-erally among bushes or weeds, and has a peculiar mouse-like way of rainiingthrough the grass.*During the winter itlives mostly on theseeds of w e e d s,while in sunmier itis largely insectivo-rous. In spring itfeeds upon the seedsof dandelion. Whencanker-worms areabundant it feedsfreely upon them,and at other timestakes a great variety of insects, such as ground-beetles, grass-hoppers and their eggs, occasionally a lady-bird beetle andvarious noxious beetles, moths, dragon-flies, crickets, spiders,bugs, two-winged flies, and myriapods. Considering its abundance, com])aratively few people arefamiliar with the song or api)earance of the bird i
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